access-control
Safeguard articles tagged "access-control" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
49 articles
Authentication bypass vulnerabilities explained
Authentication bypass flaws let attackers skip login entirely. See how CVE-2022-40684, CVE-2023-22515, and CVE-2021-40539 were exploited and prevented.
Privilege escalation vulnerabilities explained
Privilege escalation vulnerabilities turn a low-privilege foothold into root or admin access. Learn how they work, key CVEs, and how to detect them.
Application Data Security: How to Protect Data Across Its Lifecycle
Application data security is the set of controls that protect data as your application collects, processes, stores, and transmits it. Here is a practical model for getting it right.
Security considerations for deploying and querying vector...
Vector databases now hold copies of your most sensitive data with weaker controls than the systems they came from. Here's what to fix before your next RAG deployment.
Project Quay Improper Access Control Exposing Private Ima...
CVE-2020-27838 exposed private container images in Project Quay due to improper access control. Here's what happened, who's affected, and how to remediate it.
RBAC vs. ABAC vs. ReBAC: choosing an access-control model for multi-tenant cloud apps
Google's Zanzibar paper (USENIX ATC 2019) showed relationship graphs authorizing access with sub-10ms latency at massive scale — here's when RBAC or ABAC beats it instead.
The OWASP Top 10:2025, explained with minimal fix-it code
OWASP reordered its Top 10 for 2025 — Broken Access Control is back at #1 and a new Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions category debuts at #10.
A hardening checklist for modern Drupal deployments
Drupal 7's 2025 end-of-life left unsupported sites exposed; here's a concrete checklist for module vetting, access control, and patch cadence on Drupal 10/11.
A risk framework for enterprise AI coding and agent tool rollouts
Samsung banned ChatGPT company-wide after three leaks in 20 days. A working framework for data exposure, model supply chain, and access control risk.
Why traditional AppSec still catches most enterprise AI agent bugs
OWASP's LLM Top 10 names new categories, but most enterprise agent breaches trace back to broken access control and unvalidated input — the classics.
Finding and fixing IDOR vulnerabilities in Python
Broken Object Level Authorization has held the #1 spot on the OWASP API Security Top 10 since 2019 — and Django's get_object_or_404() does nothing to stop it.
Secure multi-tenant SaaS access control patterns
Broken Access Control has topped OWASP's Top 10 for two straight cycles, found in 100% of tested apps in 2025 — most of that risk starts with one missing tenant_id check.
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