The product exposes a resource to the wrong control sphere, providing unintended actors with inappropriate access to the resource.
Extended Description
Resources such as files and directories may be inadvertently exposed through mechanisms such as insecurepermissions, or when a program accidentally operates on the wrong object. For example, a program may intend that private files can only be provided to a specific user. This effectively defines a control sphere that is intended to prevent attackers from accessing these private files. If the file permissions are insecure, then parties other than the user will be able to access those files.
A separate control sphere might effectively require that the user can only access the private files, but not any other files on the system. If the program does not ensure that the user is only requesting private files, then the user might be able to access other files on the system.
In either case, the end result is that a resource has been exposed to the wrong party.
Time of Introduction
Architecture and Design
Implementation
Operation
Common Consequences
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Confidentiality
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Technical Impact: Read application
data; Modify application
data; Other
A "control sphere" is a set of resources and behaviors that are accessible
to a single actor, or a group of actors. A product's security model will
typically define multiple spheres, possibly implicitly. For example, a
server might define one sphere for "administrators" who can create new user
accounts with subdirectories under /home/server/, and a second sphere might
cover the set of users who can create or delete files within their own
subdirectories. A third sphere might be "users who are authenticated to the
operating system on which the product is installed." Each sphere has
different sets of actors and allowable behaviors.
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