Improper Authorization of Index Containing Sensitive Information

Opis

The product creates a search index of private or sensitive documents, but it does not properly limit index access to actors who are authorized to see the original information.

Web sites and other document repositories may apply an indexing routine against a group of private documents to facilitate search. If the index's results are available to parties who do not have access to the documents being indexed, then attackers could obtain portions of the documents by conducting targeted searches and reading the results. The risk is especially dangerous if search results include surrounding text that was not part of the search query. This issue can appear in search engines that are not configured (or implemented) to ignore critical files that should remain hidden; even without permissions to download these files directly, the remote user could read them.

Skutki

• Confidentiality

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Przykłady podatności

• CVE-2022-41918 A search application's access control rules are not properly applied to indices for data streams, allowing for the viewing of sensitive information.

Słabość nadrzędna

• CWE-1230 Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Metadata

Kiedy powstaje

• Architecture and Design
• Implementation

Dotyczy

Not Language-Specific, Not Technology-Specific, Web Based, Web Server

Uwagi

This weakness is probably under-studied and under-reported.

Źródła

1. Insecure Indexing — WASC