Incorrect Behavior Order: Authorization Before Parsing and Canonicalization
If a web server does not fully parse requested URLs before it examines them for authorization, it may be possible for an attacker to bypass authorization protection.
Description
For instance, the character strings /./ and / both mean current directory. If /SomeDirectory is a protected directory and an attacker requests /./SomeDirectory, the attacker may be able to gain access to the resource if /./ is not converted to / before the authorization check is performed.
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Weaknesses in this category are related to access control.
Weaknesses in this category are related to authorization components of a system. Frequently these deal with the ability to enforce that agents have the required permis...
Weaknesses in this category are related to the design and architecture of a system's authorization components. Frequently these deal with enforcing that agents have th...
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