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Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA)

RISK LEVEL: CRITICAL

Root Cause Mechanism

Failure to validate object-level authorization checks at the data Access Control Layer (ACL) when accessing resource IDs supplied in user requests.

Exploitation Methodology

Attackers manipulate resource identifier parameters (e.g., `/api/v1/tenants/1029/invoices/8841`) to read or mutate cross-tenant records.

VULNERABLE CODE IMPLEMENTATION

// VULNERABLE: Direct database fetch using user-supplied parameter without owner verification
app.get('/api/v1/invoices/:id', async (req, res) => {
  const invoice = await db.Invoice.findByPk(req.params.id); // No tenant/user context check!
  if (!invoice) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Not found' });
  res.json(invoice);
});

SECURE HARDENED PATTERN

// SECURE: Enforce authorization scope bound to authenticated session context
app.get('/api/v1/invoices/:id', async (req, res) => {
  const invoice = await db.Invoice.findOne({
    where: {
      id: req.params.id,
      tenantId: req.user.tenantId // Explicit scope check enforced by DB query
    }
  });
  if (!invoice) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'NotFound or Unauthorized' });
  res.json(invoice);
});

Security Engineering Mitigation Playbook

[1]Enforce centralized authorization middleware at the data layer rather than trusting API boundary logic.
[2]Use unpredictable non-sequential identifiers (UUIDv4 or ULIDs) to prevent ID enumeration.
[3]Implement automated authorization test matrices verifying tenant isolation across all HTTP verbs.

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