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CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) — Vulnerability Class 2142

2142 vulnerabilities classified as CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当). AI Chinese analysis included.

CWE-284 represents a critical security weakness where software fails to properly restrict access to sensitive resources, allowing unauthorized actors to interact with data or functions they should not reach. This flaw typically arises when developers neglect to implement robust authentication or authorization checks, enabling attackers to bypass security controls through direct URL manipulation, token forgery, or privilege escalation techniques. Exploitation often leads to severe consequences, including data breaches, unauthorized system modifications, or complete service disruption. To mitigate this risk, developers must enforce strict access control policies at every layer of the application architecture. This involves implementing comprehensive identity verification, applying the principle of least privilege, and rigorously validating user permissions before granting access to any protected resource, ensuring that only authenticated and authorized users can perform specific actions.

MITRE CWE Description
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as: Authentication (proving the identity of an actor) Authorization (ensuring that a given actor can access a resource), and Accountability (tracking of activities that were performed) When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: Specification: incorrect privileges, permissions, ownership, etc. are explicitly specified for either the user or the resource (for example, setting a password file to be world-writable, or giving administrator capabilities to a guest user). This action could be performed by the program or the administrator. Enforcement: the mechanism contains errors that prevent it from properly enforcing the specified access control requirements (e.g., allowing the user to specify their own privileges, or allowing a syntactically-incorrect ACL to produce insecure settings). This problem occurs within the program itself, in that it does not actually enforce the intended security policy that the administrator specifies.
Common Consequences (1)
OtherVaries by Context
Mitigations (2)
Architecture and Design, OperationVery carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
Architecture and DesignCompartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separatio…
Examples (2)
This code temporarily raises the program's privileges to allow creation of a new user folder.
def makeNewUserDir(username): if invalidUsername(username): #avoid CWE-22 and CWE-78 print('Usernames cannot contain invalid characters') return False try: raisePrivileges() os.mkdir('/home/' + username) lowerPrivileges() except OSError: print('Unable to create new user directory for user:' + username) return False return True
Bad · Python
This function runs an arbitrary SQL query on a given database, returning the result of the query.
function runEmployeeQuery($dbName, $name){ mysql_select_db($dbName,$globalDbHandle) or die("Could not open Database".$dbName); //Use a prepared statement to avoid CWE-89 $preparedStatement = $globalDbHandle->prepare('SELECT * FROM employees WHERE name = :name'); $preparedStatement->execute(array(':name' => $name)); return $preparedStatement->fetchAll(); } /.../ $employeeRecord = runEmployeeQuery('EmployeeDB',$_GET['EmployeeName']);
Bad · PHP
CVE IDTitleCVSSSeverityPublished
CVE-2024-1144 Improper Access Control at Alma Devklan Blog — Alma Blog 6.5 Medium2024-03-19
CVE-2024-20767 ColdFusion | Improper Access Control (CWE-284) — ColdFusion 7.4 High2024-03-18
CVE-2024-2481 Surya2Developer Hostel Management System manage-students.php access control — Hostel Management System 6.5 Medium2024-03-15
CVE-2024-20319 Cisco IOS XR 安全漏洞 — Cisco IOS XR Software 4.3 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-20315 Cisco IOS XR 安全漏洞 — Cisco IOS XR Software 5.8 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-20322 Cisco IOS XR 安全漏洞 — Cisco IOS XR Software 5.8 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-1668 Avada <= 7.11.5 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure via Form Entries — Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce 6.5 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-0687 Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection <= 2.5 - Information Exposure — Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection 5.3 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-0377 LifterLMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for eLearning <= 7.5.1 - Missing Authorization via process_review — LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes 5.3 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-0369 Bulk Edit Post Titles <= 5.0.0 - Missing Authorization via bulkUpdatePostTitles — Bulk Edit Post Titles 4.3 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-0631 Duitku Payment Gateway <= 2.11.6 - Missing Authorization via check_duitku_response — Duitku Payment Gateway 5.3 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2023-6785 Download Manager <= 3.2.84 - Missing Authorization — Download Manager 5.3 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-1462 Maintenance Page <= 1.0.8 - Security Mechanism Bypass via REST API — Maintenance Page 5.3 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-1370 Maintenance Page <= 1.0.8 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Exposure — Maintenance Page 5.3 Medium2024-03-13
CVE-2024-21436 Windows Installer Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Windows 10 Version 1809 7.8 High2024-03-12
CVE-2024-26203 Azure Data Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Azure Data Studio 7.3 High2024-03-12
CVE-2024-26201 Microsoft Intune Linux Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Intune Company Portal for Android 6.6 Medium2024-03-12
CVE-2024-21418 Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) 7.8 High2024-03-12
CVE-2023-36554 Fortinet FortiManager 访问控制错误漏洞 — FortiManager 7.7 High2024-03-12
CVE-2022-32257 Siemens SINEMA Remote Connect Server 访问控制错误漏洞 — SINEMA Remote Connect Server 9.8 Critical2024-03-12
CVE-2024-21483 Siemens SENTRON 7KM PAC 访问控制错误漏洞 — SENTRON 7KM PAC3120 AC/DC 4.6 Medium2024-03-12
CVE-2024-28120 API key leak in codeium-chrome — codeium-chrome 6.5 Medium2024-03-11
CVE-2024-2281 boyiddha Automated-Mess-Management-System Setting index.php access control — Automated-Mess-Management-System 6.3 Medium2024-03-08
CVE-2024-28115 Privilege Escalation in FreeRTOS Kernel ARMv7-M MPU ports and ARMv8-M ports with MPU support enabled — FreeRTOS-Kernel 8.8 High2024-03-07
CVE-2024-1088 Password Protected Store for WooCommerce <= 2.2 - Information Exposure via REST API — Password Protected Store for WooCommerce 5.3 Medium2024-03-05
CVE-2024-1478 Maintenance Mode <= 3.0.1 - Information Exposure — Maintenance Mode 5.3 Medium2024-03-05
CVE-2024-0795 Create user API role not enforced — mintplex-labs/anything-llm 9.8 -2024-03-02
CVE-2024-21767 Commend WS203VICM Improper Access Control — WS203VICM 9.4 Critical2024-03-01
CVE-2024-1942 Mattermost 安全漏洞 — Mattermost 4.3 Medium2024-02-29
CVE-2024-1888 Existing server guests invited to the team by members without "invite_guest" permission — Mattermost 4.3 Medium2024-02-29

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) represent 2142 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.