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Authorization 4

Once an authorization failure is detected, access needs to be blocked. It is also useful to log (associated with the user's identity if possible) and flag these as possibly malicious activity for further analysis, or as input for application intrusion detection systems.

NB: the key concept for this card is allowing access, even though authorization checks were undertaken and detected a failure. See AT 8 for the similar authentication failure.

How to play?

Kelly can bypass authorization controls because they do not fail securely (i.e. they default to allowing access)

Mappings

Owasp ASVS (4.0): 4.1.5

Capec: 122

Owasp SCP: 79,80

Owasp Appsensor:

Safecode: 8,10,11

ASVS (4.0) Cheatsheetseries Index

ASVS V4.1 - General Access Control Design

Attacks

Privilege escalation

Password Guessing/Brute Force Attacks

Insider Threats

Social engineering attack

Session Hijacking (Man-in-the-Middle)

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