A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity.
N/A
Threat Mapped score: 0.0
Industry: Finiancial
Threat priority: Unclassified
CVE: CVE-2002-1981
Roles have access to dangerous procedures (Accessible entities).
CVE: CVE-2002-1671
Untrusted object/method gets access to clipboard (Accessible entities).
CVE: CVE-2004-2204
Gain privileges using functions/tags that should be restricted (Accessible entities).
CVE: CVE-2000-0315
Traceroute program allows unprivileged users to modify source address of packet (Accessible entities).
CVE: CVE-2004-0380
Bypass domain restrictions using a particular file that references unsafe URI schemes (Accessible entities).
CVE: CVE-2002-1154
Script does not restrict access to an update command, leading to resultant disk consumption and filled error logs (Accessible entities).
CVE: CVE-2002-1145
"public" database user can use stored procedure to modify data controlled by the database owner (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2000-0506
User with capability can prevent setuid program from dropping privileges (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2002-2042
Allows attachment to and modification of privileged processes (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2000-1212
User with privilege can edit raw underlying object using unprotected method (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2005-1742
Inappropriate actions allowed by a particular role(Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2001-1480
Untrusted entity allowed to access the system clipboard (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2001-1551
Extra Linux capability allows bypass of system-specified restriction (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2001-1166
User with debugging rights can read entire process (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2005-1816
Non-root admins can add themselves or others to the root admin group (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2005-2173
Users can change certain properties of objects to perform otherwise unauthorized actions (Unsafe privileged actions).
CVE: CVE-2005-2027
Certain debugging commands not restricted to just the administrator, allowing registry modification and infoleak (Unsafe privileged actions).
| Phase | Note |
|---|---|
| Architecture and Design | N/A |
| Implementation | REALIZATION: This weakness is caused during implementation of an architectural security tactic. |
| Operation | N/A |
Intro: This code intends to allow only Administrators to print debug information about a system.
Body: While the intention was to only allow Administrators to print the debug information, the code as written only excludes those with the role of "GUEST". Someone with the role of "ADMIN" or "USER" will be allowed access, which goes against the original intent. An attacker may be able to use this debug information to craft an attack on the system.
public enum Roles { ADMIN,USER,GUEST } public void printDebugInfo(User requestingUser){ if(isAuthenticated(requestingUser)){ switch(requestingUser.role){ case GUEST: System.out.println("You are not authorized to perform this command"); break; default: System.out.println(currentDebugState()); break; } } else{ System.out.println("You must be logged in to perform this command"); } }