OpenCTI is an open source platform allowing organizations to manage their cyber threat intelligence knowledge and observables. Due to lack of certain security controls on the profile edit functionality, an authenticated attacker with low privileges can gain administrative privileges on the web application.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: