CWE-280
AllowedImproper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges
Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft
The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when it has insufficient privileges to access resources or functionality as specified by their permissions. This may cause it to follow unexpected code paths that may leave the product in an invalid state.
276 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-GCCQ-H3XJ-JGVF
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-02-12 15:17 – Updated: 2024-10-11 21:35Summary
When processing requests authorization was improperly and insufficiently checked, allowing attackers to access far more functionality than users intended, including to the administrative and moderator functionality of the Pixelfed server.
This vulnerability affects every version of Pixelfed between v0.10.4 and v0.11.9, inclusive. A proof of concept of this vulnerability exists.
Details
In vulnerable versions of Pixelfed (versions before 0.11.11), when the API checked the request for permissions to perform a certain behavior, it did not check that the OAuth Application/Client had granted access to those API endpoints, it only checked if the user was authenticated via an access token, and if the user was the owner of the resource or an admin on the instance.
This meant that an attacker could request an access token for "read" permissions to authenticate you with their application, but the access token that they obtained actually could be used for "write" or even administrative actions, and the user who granted access to their account had zero knowledge of this elevated access.
Proof of Concept
- Create an access token either via 2-legged OAuth flow for the
readscope, or create a Personal Access Tokens with thereadscope. - Using that Access Token, perform a request that would need a particular higher-privilege scope, for instance, following a user or performing an administrative request. (respectively requiring
followoradmin:readandadmin:writescopes in the patched versions) - Observe that despite your access token having
readpermissions, the follow or administrative request was successful.
e.g., Maybe an attacker collects an access token (which expires in 1 year) wants to do something really nasty to an admin, such as disabling federation on their target's pixelfed server. As long as that server has instance.enable_cc configured (defaults to true), then the attacker can use the read scoped access token and perform the following request:
POST /api/admin/config/update
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer <access token with read scope>
{ "key": "federation.activitypub.enabled": "value": false }
And federation of that pixelfed server would be subsequently disabled, as if the administrator had disabled it.
Impact
This vulnerability affects every local user of a Pixelfed server, and can potentially affect the servers' ability to federate.
Some user interaction is required to setup the conditions to be able to exercise the vulnerability, but the attacker could conduct this attack time-delayed manner, where user interaction is not actively required, since access tokens in Pixelfed have a 1-year lifetime before they expire, and users' often forget to revoke access tokens for applications that they are no longer using.
This also means that Access Tokens that may have been leaked from third-party OAuth Application's databases would be usable for a significant amount of time by potential attackers.
Prior versions
Whilst this vulnerability is listed as >= 0.10.4, there is potential that versions before 0.10.4 are also vulnerable to this sort of security bypass, however, given that the code changed significantly between 0.10.3 and 0.10.4 we've been unable to easily assess if these heavily outdated versions are vulnerable or not to this exploit.
Sponsorship
The work involved in investigating and remediation of this security vulnerability was provided by Nivenly Foundation, for whom we are grateful for their support of the Fediverse and Pixelfed.
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"details": "### Summary\n\nWhen processing requests authorization was improperly and insufficiently checked, allowing attackers to access far more functionality than users intended, including to the administrative and moderator functionality of the Pixelfed server.\n\nThis vulnerability affects every version of Pixelfed between `v0.10.4` and `v0.11.9`, inclusive. A proof of concept of this vulnerability exists.\n\n### Details\n\nIn vulnerable versions of Pixelfed (versions before 0.11.11), when the API checked the request for permissions to perform a certain behavior, it did not check that the OAuth Application/Client had granted access to those API endpoints, it only checked if the user was authenticated via an access token, and if the user was the owner of the resource or an admin on the instance.\n\nThis meant that an attacker could request an access token for \"read\" permissions to authenticate you with their application, but the access token that they obtained actually could be used for \"write\" or even administrative actions, and the user who granted access to their account had zero knowledge of this elevated access.\n\n#### Proof of Concept\n\n1. Create an access token either via [2-legged OAuth flow](https://oauth.net/2/grant-types/authorization-code/) for the `read` scope, or create a Personal Access Tokens with the `read` scope.\n2. Using that Access Token, perform a request that would need a particular higher-privilege scope, for instance, following a user or performing an administrative request. (respectively requiring `follow` or `admin:read` and `admin:write` scopes in the patched versions)\n3. Observe that despite your access token having `read` permissions, the follow or administrative request was successful.\n\ne.g., Maybe an attacker collects an access token (which expires in 1 year) wants to do something really nasty to an admin, such as disabling federation on their target\u0027s pixelfed server. As long as that server has `instance.enable_cc` configured (defaults to `true`), then the attacker can use the `read` scoped access token and perform the following request:\n\n```\nPOST /api/admin/config/update\nContent-Type: application/json\nAccept: application/json\nAuthorization: Bearer \u003caccess token with read scope\u003e\n\n{ \"key\": \"federation.activitypub.enabled\": \"value\": false }\n```\n\nAnd federation of that pixelfed server would be subsequently disabled, as if the administrator had disabled it.\n\n### Impact\n\nThis vulnerability affects every local user of a Pixelfed server, and can potentially affect the servers\u0027 ability to federate.\n\nSome user interaction is required to setup the conditions to be able to exercise the vulnerability, but the attacker could conduct this attack time-delayed manner, where user interaction is not actively required, since access tokens in Pixelfed have a 1-year lifetime before they expire, and users\u0027 often forget to revoke access tokens for applications that they are no longer using.\n\nThis also means that Access Tokens that may have been leaked from third-party OAuth Application\u0027s databases would be usable for a significant amount of time by potential attackers.\n\n### Prior versions\n\nWhilst this vulnerability is listed as `\u003e= 0.10.4`, there is potential that versions before `0.10.4` are also vulnerable to this sort of security bypass, however, given that the code changed significantly between `0.10.3` and `0.10.4` we\u0027ve been unable to easily assess if these heavily outdated versions are vulnerable or not to this exploit.\n\n### Sponsorship\n\nThe work involved in investigating and remediation of this security vulnerability was provided by [Nivenly Foundation](https://nivenly.org/), for whom we are grateful for their support of the Fediverse and Pixelfed.",
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GHSA-GG53-V4GC-QV5Q
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 05:10 – Updated: 2026-05-15 00:30JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (aka JBoss EAP or JBEAP) before 6.0.1, when using role-based authorization for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) access, does not call the intended authorization modules, which prevents JACC permissions from being applied and allows remote attackers to obtain access to the EJB.
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GHSA-GP2X-43X3-838X
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-17 03:31 – Updated: 2024-08-21 06:32Improper permission settings for mobile applications (com.transsion.carlcare) may lead to user password and account security risks.
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GHSA-GP65-8MX5-X88C
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-06 09:31 – Updated: 2025-05-06 09:31Vulnerability of improper authentication logic implementation in the file system module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.
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GHSA-GRC3-8Q8M-4J7C
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-02-09 22:37 – Updated: 2024-01-31 15:12Apache Accumulo versions 1.5.0 through 1.10.0 and version 2.0.0 do not properly check the return value of some policy enforcement functions before permitting an authenticated user to perform certain administrative operations. Specifically, the return values of the 'canFlush' and 'canPerformSystemActions' security functions are not checked in some instances, therefore allowing an authenticated user with insufficient permissions to perform the following actions: flushing a table, shutting down Accumulo or an individual tablet server, and setting or removing system-wide Accumulo configuration properties.
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GHSA-GXHW-GX89-G9CH
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-10-16 18:31 – Updated: 2024-10-21 18:30Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in OpenText OpenText Application Automation Tools allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.
Multiple missing permission checks - Service Virtualization config has been discovered in in OpenText Application Automation Tools. The vulnerability could allow users with Overall/Read permission to enumerate Service Virtualization server names.
This issue affects OpenText Application Automation Tools: 24.1.0 and below.
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GHSA-H54R-XQ46-QWQM
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-20 18:40 – Updated: 2026-08-20 18:40Impact
The Documents and Images chooser's chosen endpoint incorrectly listed items for which the user has not been granted choose permission. A user with access to the Wagtail admin could see the filename and name and URLs of documents and images in those collections.
The vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin.
Patches
Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.8, 7.3.3, 7.4.2.
Workarounds
N/A
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to @harshakshit for reporting this issue.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Visit Wagtail's support channels
- Email us at security@wagtail.org (view our security policy for more information).
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"details": "### Impact\nThe Documents and Images chooser\u0027s chosen endpoint incorrectly listed items for which the user has not been granted choose permission. A user with access to the Wagtail admin could see the filename and name and URLs of documents and images in those collections.\n\nThe vulnerability is not exploitable by an ordinary site visitor without access to the Wagtail admin.\n\n### Patches\nPatched versions have been released as Wagtail 7.0.8, 7.3.3, 7.4.2.\n\n### Workarounds\nN/A\n\n### Acknowledgements\nMany thanks to @harshakshit for reporting this issue.\n\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n\n* Visit Wagtail\u0027s [support channels](https://docs.wagtail.org/en/stable/support.html)\n* Email us at [security@wagtail.org](mailto:security@wagtail.org) (view our [security policy](https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/security/policy) for more information).",
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GHSA-H758-52XF-F99C
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-12 18:31 – Updated: 2025-05-12 18:31An authenticated user without user administrative permissions could change the administrator Account Name.
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"details": "An authenticated user without user administrative permissions could change the administrator Account Name.",
"id": "GHSA-h758-52xf-f99c",
"modified": "2025-05-12T18:31:47Z",
"published": "2025-05-12T18:31:47Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46740"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://selinc.com/products/software/latest-software-versions"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-H83J-JR29-XW3M
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-19 21:30 – Updated: 2025-03-19 21:30IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7 could allow a local user to execute privileged commands due to the improper handling of permissions.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-51459"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-280"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-03-19T19:15:42Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7 could allow a local user to execute privileged commands due to the improper handling of permissions.",
"id": "GHSA-h83j-jr29-xw3m",
"modified": "2025-03-19T21:30:52Z",
"published": "2025-03-19T21:30:52Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-51459"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7185056"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-H948-GJV3-7GPC
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-25 06:30 – Updated: 2025-03-25 06:30An Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges vulnerability in scripts used in B&R APROL <4.4-00P5 may allow an authenticated local attacker to read credential information.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-8315"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-280"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-03-25T05:15:40Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "An Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges vulnerability in scripts used in B\u0026R APROL \u003c4.4-00P5 may allow an authenticated local attacker to read credential information.",
"id": "GHSA-h948-gjv3-7gpc",
"modified": "2025-03-25T06:30:26Z",
"published": "2025-03-25T06:30:26Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8315"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.br-automation.com/fileadmin/SA24P015-77573c08.pdf"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
]
}
Mitigation MIT-46
Strategy: Separation of Privilege
- Compartmentalize 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 separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.
Mitigation
Always check to see if you have successfully accessed a resource or system functionality, and use proper error handling if it is unsuccessful. Do this even when you are operating in a highly privileged mode, because errors or environmental conditions might still cause a failure. For example, environments with highly granular permissions/privilege models, such as Windows or Linux capabilities, can cause unexpected failures.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.