CWE-863Incorrect Authorization

Description

Common consequences· 5

• Confidentiality — Read Application Data, Read Files or Directories
  An attacker could bypass intended access restrictions to read sensitive data, either by reading the data directly from a data store that is not correctly restricted, or by accessing insufficiently-protected, privileged functionality to read the data.
• Integrity — Modify Application Data, Modify Files or Directories
  An attacker could bypass intended access restrictions to modify sensitive data, either by writing the data directly to a data store that is not correctly restricted, or by accessing insufficiently-protected, privileged functionality to write the data.
• Access Control — Gain Privileges or Assume Identity, Bypass Protection Mechanism
  An attacker could bypass intended access restrictions to gain privileges by modifying or reading critical data directly, or by accessing privileged functionality.
• Confidentiality / Integrity / Availability — Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands
  An attacker could use elevated privileges to execute unauthorized commands or code.
• Availability — DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU), DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory), DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)
  An attacker could gain unauthorized access to resources on the system and excessively consume those resources, leading to a denial of service.

Potential mitigations· 5

• [Architecture and Design]
• [Architecture and Design]Ensure that access control checks are performed related to the business logic. These checks may be different than the access control checks that are applied to more generic resources such as files, connections, processes, memory, and database records. For example, a database may restrict access for medical records to a specific database user, but each record might only be intended to be accessible to the patient and the patient's doctor [REF-7].
• [Architecture and Design]
• [Architecture and Design]
• [System Configuration, Installation]Use the access control capabilities of your operating system and server environment and define your access control lists accordingly. Use a "default deny" policy when defining these ACLs.

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