Rule Definition
The technical impact is attackers acting as users or administrators, or users using privileged functions, or creating, accessing, updating or deleting every record.
The business impact depends on the protection needs of the application and data.
Remediation
review the source code and reduce
Violation Code Sample
<configuration>
<system.web>
<identity impersonate="true"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Fixed Code Sample
<configuration>
<system.web>
<identity impersonate="false"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Reference
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10-2017_A5-Broken_Access_Control
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/aspnet/xh507fc5(v=vs.100)
Related Technologies
Technical Criterion
Secure Coding - Input Validation
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