A threat actor may perform unauthorized functions by bypassing or abusing the target authorization mechanism

Example #1

1. Developer forgets to remove an in-house debugging mechanism associated with user-agent
2. A threat actor finds out changing the user-agent header to debug grants different or higher privileges

Impact

Vary

Risk

• read & modify data
• execute commands

Redemption

• validate access control

ID

91f9b046-b802-425a-b71b-64c21c6b1c0f

References

• [mitre](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/639.html