CWE CATEGORY: OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A5 - Broken Access Control
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Category ID: 1031
Vulnerability Mapping:
PROHIBITED
This CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities
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 Summary
Weaknesses in this category are related to the A5 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2017.
Membership
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 View - a subset of CWE entries that provides a way of examining CWE content. The two main view structures are Slices (flat lists) and Graphs (containing relationships between entries). |
1026 |
Weaknesses in OWASP Top Ten (2017)
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 Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource. |
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Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
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 Pillar - a weakness that is the most abstract type of weakness and represents a theme for all class/base/variant weaknesses related to it. A Pillar is different from a Category as a Pillar is still technically a type of weakness that describes a mistake, while a Category represents a common characteristic used to group related things. |
284 |
Improper Access Control
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 Class - a weakness that is described in a very abstract fashion, typically independent of any specific language or technology. More specific than a Pillar Weakness, but more general than a Base Weakness. Class level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 1 or 2 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, and resource. |
285 |
Improper Authorization
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Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource. |
425 |
Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')
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Base - a weakness that is still mostly independent of a resource or technology, but with sufficient details to provide specific methods for detection and prevention. Base level weaknesses typically describe issues in terms of 2 or 3 of the following dimensions: behavior, property, technology, language, and resource. |
639 |
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
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Vulnerability Mapping Notes
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Usage:
PROHIBITED
(this CWE ID must not be used to map to real-world vulnerabilities)
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Reason:
Category
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Rationale:
This entry is a Category. Using categories for mapping has been discouraged since 2019. Categories are informal organizational groupings of weaknesses that can help CWE users with data aggregation, navigation, and browsing. However, they are not weaknesses in themselves.
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Comments: See member weaknesses of this category.
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