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OWASP Top 10 – A5:2017 – Broken Access Control

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A5:2017 – Broken Access Control of the OWASP Top 10 Application Security Risks – 2017 states that “Restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to do are often not properly enforced. Attackers can exploit these flaws to access unauthorized functionality and/or data, such as access other users’ accounts, view sensitive files, modify other users’ data, change access rights, etc.”

 

What is the OWASP Top 10 2017?

The OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for developers and web application security. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications. Globally recognized by developers as the first step towards more secure coding.

 

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Updated on September 17, 2022
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