CWE-289Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name

Description

The product performs authentication based on the name of a resource being accessed, or the name of the actor performing the access, but it does not properly check all possible names for that resource or actor.

Common consequences

• Access Control→Bypass Protection Mechanism

Potential mitigations

• Architecture and Design
  Avoid making decisions based on names of resources (e.g. files) if those resources can have alternate names.
• Implementation
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• Implementation
  Inputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180). Make sure that the application does not decode the same input twice (CWE-174). Such errors could be used to bypass allowlist validation schemes by introducing dangerous inputs after they have been checked.

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