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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-2023-26473 XWiki Platform allows unprivileged users to make arbitrary select queries using DatabaseListProperty and suggest.vm — xwiki-platform 6.5 Medium2023-03-02
CVE-2023-26474 XWiki Platform vulnerable to privilege escalation via properties with wiki syntax that are executed with wrong author — xwiki-platform 10.0 Critical2023-03-02
CVE-2023-25821 Nextcloud download permissions can be changed by resharer — security-advisories 5.7 Medium2023-02-24
CVE-2023-1007 Twister Antivirus IoControlCode filmfd.sys 0x801120E4 access control — Antivirus 5.3 Medium2023-02-24
CVE-2023-0998 SourceCodester Alphaware Simple E-Commerce System Payment summary.php access control — Alphaware Simple E-Commerce System 6.5 Medium2023-02-24
CVE-2023-0963 SourceCodester Music Gallery Site POST Request Users.php access control — Music Gallery Site 7.3 High2023-02-22
CVE-2023-22920 Zyxel LTE3316-M604 安全漏洞 — LTE3316-M604 9.8 Critical2023-02-21
CVE-2023-0916 SourceCodester Auto Dealer Management System Users.php access control — Auto Dealer Management System 6.3 Medium2023-02-19
CVE-2023-22232 Adobe Connect Improper Access Control Security feature bypass — Connect 5.3 Medium2023-02-17
CVE-2023-23923 Moodle: possible to set the preferred "start page" of other users 8.2 -2023-02-17
CVE-2023-24484 A malicious user can cause log files to be written to a directory that they do not have permission to write to. — Citrix Workspace App for Windows--2023-02-16
CVE-2023-24485 Privilege Escalation on the system running a vulnerable version of Citrix Workspace app for Windows — Citrix Workspace App for Windows 7.8 -2023-02-16
CVE-2023-22807 CVE-2023-22807 — XBC-DN32U 9.8 Critical2023-02-15
CVE-2023-22805 CVE-2023-22805 — XBC-DN32U 6.5 Medium2023-02-15
CVE-2023-21717 Microsoft SharePoint Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 8.8 High2023-02-14
CVE-2023-21777 Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability — Azure App Service on Azure Stack Hub 8.7 High2023-02-14
CVE-2023-25149 TimescaleDB has incorrect access control — timescaledb 8.8 High2023-02-14
CVE-2023-23835 Siemens Mendix 访问控制错误漏洞 — Mendix Applications using Mendix 7 5.9 Medium2023-02-14
CVE-2023-25161 Nextcloud Server's missing rate limiting on password reset functionality allows sending lots of emails — security-advisories 3.7 Low2023-02-13
CVE-2023-25159 Nextcloud Server previews are accessible without a watermark — security-advisories 2.3 Low2023-02-13
CVE-2022-46754 Dell Wyse Management Suite 安全漏洞 — Wyse Management Suite 8.7 High2023-02-10
CVE-2022-46755 Dell Wyse Management Suite 安全漏洞 — Wyse Management Suite 4.9 Medium2023-02-10
CVE-2022-46677 Dell Wyse Management Suite 安全漏洞 — Wyse Management Suite 6.8 Medium2023-02-10
CVE-2022-46678 Dell Wyse Management Suite 安全漏洞 — Wyse Management Suite 4.9 Medium2023-02-10
CVE-2022-46676 Dell Wyse Management Suite 安全漏洞 — Wyse Management Suite 4.9 Medium2023-02-10
CVE-2022-33243 Improper access control in Qualcomm IPC — Snapdragon 8.4 High2023-02-09
CVE-2023-21427 SAMSUNG Mobile devices 安全漏洞 — Samsung Mobile Devices 5.4 Medium2023-02-09
CVE-2023-21438 SAMSUNG Mobile devices 安全漏洞 — Samsung Mobile Devices 2.1 Low2023-02-09
CVE-2023-21442 SAMSUNG Mobile devices 安全漏洞 — Runestone 4.0 Medium2023-02-09
CVE-2023-21445 SAMSUNG Mobile devices 安全漏洞 — The patch adds proper access control to use explicit intent. 5.5 Medium2023-02-09

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.