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CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) — Vulnerability Class 2062

2062 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-2021-24853 QR Redirector < 1.6 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary QR Redirect Response Status Update — QR Redirector 3.5 -2021-11-17
CVE-2021-26338 AMD System Management Unit 安全漏洞 — 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ 7.5 -2021-11-16
CVE-2021-3062 PAN-OS: Improper Access Control Vulnerability Exposing AWS Instance Metadata Endpoint to GlobalProtect Users — PAN-OS 8.1 High2021-11-10
CVE-2020-12488 Broken Access Control Vulnerability in Jovi Smart Scene — Jovi Smart Scene 5.5 Medium2021-11-10
CVE-2021-24816 Phoenix Media Rename < 3.4.4 - Author Arbitrary Media File Renaming — Phoenix Media Rename 4.3 -2021-11-08
CVE-2021-24801 WP Survey Plus <= 1.0 - Subscriber+ AJAX Calls — WP Survey Plus 4.6 -2021-11-08
CVE-2021-24698 Simple Download Monitor < 3.9.6 - Arbitrary Thumbnails Removal — Simple Download Monitor 4.3 -2021-11-08
CVE-2021-42359 WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) <= 3.1.23 Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Deletion — WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) 7.5 High2021-11-05
CVE-2021-25501 Samsung SMR 安全漏洞 — Samsung Mobile Devices 5.7 Medium2021-11-05
CVE-2021-40113 Cisco Catalyst PON Series Switches Optical Network Terminal Vulnerabilities — Cisco Catalyst PON Series 10.0 Critical2021-11-04
CVE-2021-40112 Cisco Catalyst PON Series Switches Optical Network Terminal Vulnerabilities — Cisco Catalyst PON Series 10.0 Critical2021-11-04
CVE-2021-34795 Cisco Catalyst PON Series Switches Optical Network Terminal Vulnerabilities — Cisco Catalyst PON Series 10.0 Critical2021-11-04
CVE-2021-39333 Hashthemes Demo Importer <= 1.1.1 Improper Access Control Allowing Content Deletion — Hashthemes Demo Importer 8.1 High2021-11-01
CVE-2021-24781 Image Source Control < 2.3.1 - Contributor+ Arbitrary Post Meta Value Change — Image Source Control 6.5 -2021-11-01
CVE-2021-41194 Improper Access Control in jupyterhub-firstuseauthenticator — firstuseauthenticator 9.1 Critical2021-10-28
CVE-2021-34794 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software SNMP Access Control Vulnerability — Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 5.3 Medium2021-10-27
CVE-2021-34754 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Ethernet Industrial Protocol Policy Bypass Vulnerabilities — Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software 5.8 Medium2021-10-27
CVE-2021-34864 Corel Parallels Desktop 安全漏洞 — Desktop 8.8 -2021-10-25
CVE-2021-38457 AUVESY Versiondog — Versiondog 9.8 Critical2021-10-22
CVE-2021-24752 Multiple Plugins from CatchThemes - Unauthorised Plugin's Setting Change — Essential Widgets 5.7 -2021-10-18
CVE-2021-38454 Moxa MXview Network Management Software — MXview Network Management Software 10.0 Critical2021-10-12
CVE-2021-28129 DEB packaging for Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 installed with a non-root userid and groupid — Apache OpenOffice 7.1 -2021-10-07
CVE-2021-38392 Improper Access Control for Boston Scientific Zoom Latitude — ZOOM LATITUDE 6.5 Medium2021-10-04
CVE-2021-41298 ECOA BAS controller - Improper Access Control — ECS Router Controller ECS (FLASH) 8.8 High2021-09-30
CVE-2020-12030 Emerson WirelessHART Gateway — Wireless 1410 Gateway 10.0 Critical2021-09-29
CVE-2021-20034 Sonicwall SMA100 路径遍历漏洞 — SMA100 9.1 -2021-09-27
CVE-2021-22941 Citrix Systems Citrix ShareFile 安全漏洞 — Citrix ShareFile storage zones controller 9.4 -2021-09-23
CVE-2021-1419 Cisco Access Points SSH Management Privilege Escalation Vulnerability — Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) 7.8 High2021-09-23
CVE-2021-34724 Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software Privilege Escalation Vulnerability — Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software 6.0 Medium2021-09-23
CVE-2021-34696 Cisco ASR 900 and ASR 920 Series Aggregation Services Routers Access Control List Bypass Vulnerability — Cisco IOS XE Software 5.8 Medium2021-09-23

Vulnerabilities classified as CWE-284 (访问控制不恰当) represent 2062 CVEs. The CWE taxonomy describes the weakness; review individual CVEs for product-specific impact.