Exploring broken access control attacks

Broken access controls simply allow authenticated and unauthenticated users to perform actions on a web application or systems that are not permitted.Implementing access controls on a system and even web applications helps administrators to restrict access to sensitive and confidential directories and data from unauthorized users. However, while many organizations will implement a pre-built web application framework on their web server, many pre-built and ready-to-use web application frameworks contain default security configurations, and if implemented without using best practices, threat actors can simply gain unauthorized access by exploiting the broken access control mechanisms.

Up next, you will gain hands-on experience of discovering and exploiting the security vulnerabilities of broken access control on a vulnerable web application such as OWASP Juice Shop.

Exploring broken access control

In this exercise, you will be learning...