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CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) — Vulnerability Class 2139

2139 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-2021-1113 NVIDIA Jetson 权限许可和访问控制问题漏洞 — Jetson AGX Xavier series, Jetson Xavier NX, Jetson TX2 series, Jetson TX2 NX, Jetson Nano, Jetson Nano 2GB, Jetson TX1 4.7 Medium2021-08-11
CVE-2021-25954 Improper Access Control in “Dolibarr” — dolibarr 4.3 Medium2021-08-09
CVE-2021-32002 SiteManager troubleshooter allows access without authentication from local network — SiteManager 4.3 Medium2021-08-05
CVE-2021-22920 Citrix Application Delivery Controller安全漏洞 — Citrix ADC, Citrix Gateway 6.5 -2021-08-05
CVE-2021-25448 SAMSUNG Smart Touch Call 安全漏洞 — Smart Touch Call 5.3 -2021-08-05
CVE-2021-25447 SAMSUNG SmartThings 安全漏洞 — Smart Things 8.2 -2021-08-05
CVE-2021-25446 SAMSUNG SmartThings 安全漏洞 — Smart Things 5.3 -2021-08-05
CVE-2021-1600 Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance IPv4 and IPv6 Forwarding Vulnerabilities — Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance 8.3 High2021-07-22
CVE-2021-1601 Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance IPv4 and IPv6 Forwarding Vulnerabilities — Cisco Intersight Virtual Appliance 8.3 High2021-07-22
CVE-2021-25320 Rancher: Cloud credentials can be used through proxy API by users without access — Rancher 9.9 Critical2021-07-15
CVE-2021-32753 Weak password in API gateway in EdgeX Foundry Edinburgh, Fuji, Geneva, and Hanoi releases allows remote attackers to obtain authentication token via dictionary-based password attack when OAuth2 authentication method is enabled. — edgex-go 8.3 High2021-07-09
CVE-2021-25440 SAMSUNG FactoryCameraFB 安全漏洞 — FactoryCameraFB 7.8 -2021-07-08
CVE-2021-25439 SAMSUNG Members 安全漏洞 — Samsung Members 4.4 -2021-07-08
CVE-2021-25438 SAMSUNG Members 安全漏洞 — Samsung Members 7.3 -2021-07-08
CVE-2021-25431 SAMSUNG Mobile devices 安全漏洞 — Cameralyzer 5.5 -2021-07-08
CVE-2021-28809 Missing Authentication for Critical Function in RTRR Server in HBS3 — HBS 3 9.8 Critical2021-07-08
CVE-2021-32517 QSAN Storage Manager - Improper Access Control — Storage Manager 7.5 High2021-07-07
CVE-2021-32514 QSAN Storage Manager - Improper Access Control Following via FirwareUpgrade function — Storage Manager 7.5 High2021-07-07
CVE-2021-34627 WP Upload Restriction <= 2.2.3 - Missing Access Control in getSelectedMimeTypesByRole function — WP Upload Restriction 4.3 Medium2021-07-07
CVE-2021-34626 WP Upload Restriction <= 2.2.3 - Missing Access Control in deleteCustomType function — WP Upload Restriction 4.3 Medium2021-07-07
CVE-2021-28579 Adobe Connect improper access control could lead to privilege escalation — Connect 4.3 Medium2021-06-28
CVE-2021-21083 Adobe Experience Manager broken access control in DSRPReindexServlet could lead to denial-of-service — Experience Manager 7.5 High2021-06-28
CVE-2021-23845 B426 Web Configuration Authentication Bypass — B426 Firmware 8.0 High2021-06-18
CVE-2020-8300 Citrix Systems Citrix Application Delivery Controller 安全漏洞 — Citrix ADC, Citrix Gateway 8.1 -2021-06-16
CVE-2021-24359 The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder < 4.1.11 - Arbitrary Reset Pwd Email Sending — The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder 7.1 -2021-06-14
CVE-2021-25405 Samsung Notes 安全漏洞 — Samsung Notes 5.0 -2021-06-11
CVE-2021-25412 Samsung SMR 安全漏洞 — Samsung Mobile Devices 7.8 -2021-06-11
CVE-2020-14388 Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 安全漏洞 — Red Hat 3scale API Management 6.3 -2021-06-02
CVE-2021-32656 Trusted servers exchange can be triggered by attacker — security-advisories 8.6 High2021-06-01
CVE-2021-32652 Missing permission check on email metadata retrieval — security-advisories 8.8 High2021-06-01

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) represent 2139 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.