CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Official CWE-862 CWE context with Glexia analysis, remediation guidance, related CVEs, and ATT&CK context.
Glexia's Take
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Missing Authorization represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Privilege escalation
- Unauthorized access
- Data modification
Developer Pattern
CWE-862 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.
Confidence
medium confidence from CWE-862, starter-2026-05.
Official CWE Definition
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Missing Authorization is a software weakness pattern tracked by CWE 862. The local starter record is replaced by the official MITRE CWE import when the sync pipeline runs.
Missing Authorization is a software weakness pattern tracked by CWE 862. The local starter record is replaced by the official MITRE CWE import when the sync pipeline runs.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- An API route verifies authentication but not object ownership.
Remediation
- Centralized authorization
- Deny-by-default policy
- Object-level access checks
Detection
- Access-control tests
- Code review
- DAST
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
Related CWEs
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ATT&CK Relevance
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