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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-2020-5279 Improper Access Control for certain legacy controller in PrestaShop — PrestaShop 4.1 Medium2020-04-20
CVE-2020-7278 McAfee firewall rules not enforced correctly — McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) 7.4 High2020-04-15
CVE-2019-1866 Cisco Webex Business Suite Host Header Value Integrity Vulnerability — Cisco Webex Business Suite 3.1 Low2020-04-13
CVE-2020-3126 Cisco Webex Meetings Multimedia Viewer Vulnerability — Cisco Webex Meetings Multimedia Viewer 3.0 Low2020-04-13
CVE-2020-5302 unprivileged user can access priviledged action in MH-WikiBot — MH-WikiBot 8.2 High2020-04-07
CVE-2019-3942 Advantech WebAccess 访问控制错误漏洞 — Advantech WebAccess 7.5 -2020-04-01
CVE-2020-8139 Nextcloud Server 访问控制错误漏洞 — Nextcloud Server 7.5 -2020-03-20
CVE-2020-7253 Improper access control vulnerability in McAfee Agent — McAfee Agent (MA) 5.7 Medium2020-03-12
CVE-2020-6971 Emerson Electric ValveLink 访问控制错误漏洞 — Emerson ValveLink 7.8 -2020-03-05
CVE-2019-5162 MOXA AWK-3131A 访问控制错误漏洞 — Moxa 8.8 -2020-02-25
CVE-2019-5136 Moxa AWK-3131A访问控制错误漏洞 — Moxa 8.8 -2020-02-25
CVE-2020-5244 Private data exposure via REST API in BuddyPress — BuddyPress 8.0 High2020-02-24
CVE-2020-5242 openHAB exec add-ons allow remote arbitrary command execution — openhab-addons 7.7 High2020-02-20
CVE-2019-18998 Asset Suite Direct Object Reference Access — Asset Suite 7.1 High2020-02-17
CVE-2019-6193 Lenovo XClarity Administrator 信息泄露漏洞 — XClarity Administrator (LXCA) 7.5 High2020-02-14
CVE-2019-6744 Xiaomi Mi6 Browser 授权问题漏洞 — Knox 4.0 -2020-02-10
CVE-2019-15615 Nextcloud 授权问题漏洞 — Nextcloud Android 6.1 -2020-02-04
CVE-2020-8121 Nextcloud Server 访问控制错误漏洞 — Nextcloud Server 6.5 -2020-02-04
CVE-2020-8122 Nextcloud Server 输入验证错误漏洞 — Nextcloud server 4.3 -2020-02-04
CVE-2019-15590 GitLab 安全漏洞 — GitLab EE 7.5 -2020-01-28
CVE-2019-5474 GitLab 访问控制错误漏洞 — GitLab EE 6.5 -2020-01-28
CVE-2020-3142 Cisco Webex Meetings Suite and Cisco Webex Meetings Online Unauthenticated Meeting Join Vulnerability — Cisco Webex Meetings 6.5 -2020-01-26
CVE-2019-15255 Cisco Identity Services Engine Authorization Bypass Vulnerability — Cisco Identity Services Engine Software 7.1 -2020-01-26
CVE-2019-14902 Samba 访问控制错误漏洞 — samba 5.4 Medium2020-01-21
CVE-2019-18275 OSIsoft PI Vision 安全漏洞 — OSIsoft PI Vision 7.1 -2020-01-15
CVE-2020-1604 Junos OS: EX4300/EX4600/QFX3500/QFX5100 Series: Stateless IP firewall filter may fail to evaluate certain packets — Junos OS 6.5 Medium2020-01-15
CVE-2019-15999 Cisco Data Center Network Manager JBoss EAP Unauthorized Access Vulnerability — Cisco Data Center Network Manager 7.6 -2020-01-06
CVE-2019-11780 Odoo 安全漏洞 — Odoo Community 8.1 High2019-12-19
CVE-2019-15589 GitLab 安全漏洞 — GitLab CE/EE 8.8 -2019-12-18
CVE-2019-5487 GitLab 安全漏洞 — GitLab EE 7.5 -2019-12-18

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.