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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-2024-20695 Skype for Business Information Disclosure Vulnerability — Skype for Business Server 2019 CU7 5.7 Medium2024-02-13
CVE-2024-21401 Microsoft Entra Jira Single-Sign-On Plugin Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Entra 9.8 Critical2024-02-13
CVE-2024-1439 Inadequate access control vulnerability in Moodle — LMS 6.5 Medium2024-02-12
CVE-2024-24776 Incorrect Authorization leads to Channel Member Count Leak — Mattermost 3.1 Low2024-02-09
CVE-2024-25106 OpenObserve Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Users API — openobserve 9.1 Critical2024-02-08
CVE-2024-0965 Simple Page Access Restriction <= 1.0.21 - Improper Access Control to Sensitive Information Exposure via REST API — Simple Page Access Restriction 5.3 Medium2024-02-08
CVE-2024-24824 graylog2-server vulnerable to instantiation of arbitrary classes triggered by API request — graylog2-server 8.8 High2024-02-07
CVE-2024-24771 Open Forms potential multi-factor authentication bypass — open-forms 7.7 High2024-02-07
CVE-2024-23447 Elastic Network Drive Connector Improper Access Control — Elastic Network Drive Connector 5.3 Medium2024-02-07
CVE-2024-23446 Kibana Broken Access Control issue — Kibana 6.5 Medium2024-02-07
CVE-2023-32479 Dell 多款产品安全漏洞 — Dell Encryption 6.7 Medium2024-02-06
CVE-2023-43517 Improper Access Control in Automotive Multimedia — Snapdragon 8.4 High2024-02-06
CVE-2024-0969 ARMember <= 4.0.24 - Improper Access Control to Sensitive Information Exposure via REST API — ARMember – Membership Plugin, Content Restriction, Member Levels, User Profile & User signup 5.3 Medium2024-02-05
CVE-2024-0373 Views for WPForms <= 3.2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via save_view — Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend 4.3 Medium2024-02-05
CVE-2024-0366 Starbox – the Author Box for Humans <= 3.4.7 - Insecure Direct Object Reference — Starbox – the Author Box for Humans 4.3 Medium2024-02-05
CVE-2024-0371 Views for WPForms <= 3.2.2 - Missing Authorization via create_view — Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend 4.3 Medium2024-02-05
CVE-2024-1092 RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator <= 4.4.1 - Missing Authorization — RSS Aggregator by Feedzy – Feed to Post, Autoblogging, News & YouTube Video Feeds Aggregator 4.3 Medium2024-02-05
CVE-2024-0370 Views for WPForms <= 3.2.2 - Missing Authorization via save_view — Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend 4.3 Medium2024-02-05
CVE-2024-0374 Views for WPForms <= 3.2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via create_view — Views for WPForms – Display & Edit WPForms Entries on your site frontend 4.3 Medium2024-02-05
CVE-2024-0324 User Profile Builder <= 3.10.8 - Missing Authorization to Plugin Settings Change via wppb_two_factor_authentication_settings_update — User Profile Builder – Beautiful User Registration Forms, User Profiles & User Role Editor 8.2 High2024-02-05
CVE-2024-22202 User Removal Page Allows Spoofing Of User Details — phpMyFAQ 5.7 Medium2024-02-05
CVE-2023-38263 IBM SOAR QRadar Plugin App improper access controls — SOAR QRadar Plugin App 6.5 Medium2024-02-02
CVE-2023-32333 IBM Maximo Asset Management improper access control — Maximo Asset Management 6.5 Medium2024-02-02
CVE-2023-47867 MachineSense FeverWarn Improper Access Control — FeverWarn 8.8 High2024-02-01
CVE-2024-1114 openBI Screen.php dlfile access control — openBI 6.5 Medium2024-01-31
CVE-2024-24566 Lobe Chat unauthorized access to plugins — lobe-chat 5.3 Medium2024-01-31
CVE-2024-21653 vantage6 insecure SSH configuration for node and server containers — vantage6 6.5 Medium2024-01-30
CVE-2024-1011 SourceCodester Employee Management System Leave delete-leave.php access control — Employee Management System 4.3 Medium2024-01-29
CVE-2024-0212 Cloudflare WordPress plugin enables information disclosure of Cloudflare API (for low privileged users) — Cloudflare-WordPress 8.1 High2024-01-29
CVE-2024-20263 Cisco Small Business 安全漏洞 — Cisco Small Business Smart and Managed Switches 5.8 Medium2024-01-26

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.