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Privilege Escalation

22 Controls
Preventing Privilege Escalation (BOLA/IDOR)

Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR) / Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) occurs when an application provides direct access to objects based on user input without checking ownership.

  • Validate that the currently authenticated user has the right to access the inherently requested record (e.g., User A requesting `receipt/1234`)
  • Use unpredictable, non-sequential UUIDs for record IDs