CA API Developer Portal 4.3.1 and earlier handles shared secret keys in an insecure manner, which allows attackers to bypass authorization.

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• broadcom ca api developer portalup to 4.3.1 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ca). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• n/a CA API Developer Portal

  • 4.3.1 and earlieraffected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2020-11666CA API Developer Portal 4.3.1 and earlier contains an access control flaw that allows malicious users to elevate privileges.
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• CVE-2020-11661CA API Developer Portal 4.3.1 and earlier contains an access control flaw that allows privileged users to view and edit user data.
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• CVE-2020-11662CA API Developer Portal 4.3.1 and earlier handles requests insecurely, which allows remote attackers to exploit a Cross-Origin Resource Shar
  31Monitor
• CVE-2020-11660CA API Developer Portal 4.3.1 and earlier contains an access control flaw that allows privileged users to view restricted sensitive informat
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• CVE-2020-11665CA API Developer Portal 4.3.1 and earlier handles loginRedirect page redirects in an insecure manner, which allows attackers to perform open
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• CVE-2020-11664CA API Developer Portal 4.3.1 and earlier handles homeRedirect page redirects in an insecure manner, which allows attackers to perform open
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);2res.json(invoice);

1const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({2  id: req.params.id,3  ownerId: req.user.id,4});5if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);6res.json(invoice);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.