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CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) — Vulnerability Class 2138

2138 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-2020-10145 Adobe ColdFusion 安全漏洞 — ColdFusion 7.8 High2021-05-27
CVE-2021-22907 Citrix Systems Workspace App 安全漏洞 — Citrix Workspace App for Windows 8.8 -2021-05-27
CVE-2020-27831 Red Hat Quay 访问控制错误漏洞 — quay 4.3 -2021-05-26
CVE-2020-25634 Red Hat 访问控制错误漏洞 — 3scale-system 5.4 -2021-05-26
CVE-2021-28798 Relative Path Traversal Vulnerability in QTS and QuTS hero — QTS 8.8 High2021-05-21
CVE-2020-15279 Scanning exclusion paths disclosure in BEST for Windows — Endpoint Security Tools for Windows 4.0 Medium2021-05-18
CVE-2020-36197 Improper Access Control Vulnerability in Music Station — Music Station 7.1 High2021-05-13
CVE-2021-1515 Cisco SD-WAN vManage Information Disclosure Vulnerability — Cisco SD-WAN vManage 4.3 Medium2021-05-06
CVE-2021-1284 Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software Authentication Bypass Vulnerability — Cisco SD-WAN vManage 8.8 High2021-05-06
CVE-2021-1478 Cisco Unified Communications Manager Denial of Service Vulnerability — Cisco Unified Communications Manager 5.3 Medium2021-05-06
CVE-2021-1477 Cisco Firepower Management Center Software Policy Vulnerability — Cisco Firepower Management Center 4.3 Medium2021-04-29
CVE-2020-7038 Avaya Meetings Server Information Disclosure vulnerability — Avaya Meetings Management 7.5 High2021-04-28
CVE-2021-22682 Horner Automation Cscape 安全漏洞 — Cscape 7.8 -2021-04-23
CVE-2021-26909 Automox Agent Guessable S3 Bucket Endpoint — Automox Agent 3.7 Low2021-04-23
CVE-2021-24238 Realteo < 1.2.4 - Arbitrary Property Deletion via IDOR — Realteo 6.5 -2021-04-22
CVE-2021-0232 Paragon Active Assurance: Authentication bypass vulnerability in Control Center — Paragon Active Assurance 7.4 High2021-04-22
CVE-2020-9668 AGSService program mishandling symbolic links — GoCart 7.8 -2021-04-16
CVE-2021-27258 Solarwinds Orion Platform 安全漏洞 — Orion Platform 9.8 -2021-04-14
CVE-2021-27598 SAP Netweaver 访问控制错误漏洞 — SAP NetWeaver AS for JAVA (Customer Usage Provisioning Servlet) 5.3 -2021-04-13
CVE-2021-21399 Unauthenticated SubSonic backend access in Ampache — ampache 9.1 Critical2021-04-13
CVE-2021-24219 All Thrive Themes and Plugins - Unauthenticated Option Update — Thrive Optimize 5.3 -2021-04-12
CVE-2021-24215 Controlled Admin Access < 1.5.2 - Improper Access Control & Privilege Escalation — Controlled Admin Access 9.8 -2021-04-12
CVE-2021-24198 wpDataTables < 3.4.2 - Improper Access Control leading to Table Data Deletion — wpDataTables – Tables & Table Charts 8.1 -2021-04-12
CVE-2021-24197 wpDataTables < 3.4.2 - Improper Access Control leading to Table Permission Takeover — wpDataTables – Tables & Table Charts 8.8 -2021-04-12
CVE-2021-25359 Samsung SMR 访问控制错误漏洞 — Samsung Mobile Devices 4.0 Medium2021-04-09
CVE-2021-1467 Cisco Webex Meetings for Android Avatar Modification Vulnerability — Cisco Webex Meetings 4.3 Medium2021-04-08
CVE-2021-21425 Unauthenticated Arbitrary YAML Write/Update leads to Code Execution — grav-plugin-admin 9.3 Critical2021-04-07
CVE-2021-27653 Pegasystem PEGA Platform 访问控制错误漏洞 — Pega Infinity 6.6 Medium2021-04-01
CVE-2021-25349 Slow Motion Editor 安全漏洞 — Slow Motion Editor 5.5 Medium2021-03-25
CVE-2021-1449 Cisco Access Point Software Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability — Cisco Aironet Access Point Software 6.7 Medium2021-03-24

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) represent 2138 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.