# 7 Common Authorization Vulnerabilities

DevFeed: [7 Common Authorization Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/7-common-authorization-vulnerabilities-29579.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/authorization-vulnerabilities/>)

Author: sakshyam.shah@goteleport.com (Sakshyam Shah)

Published: 2022-03-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>), [Access Control](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/access-control.md>), [Application Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/application-security.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>)

Tags: [access-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/access-control.md>), [application-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/application-security.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerabilities.md>), [web-applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-applications.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains common authorization vulnerabilities in web applications, focusing on insecure privilege management and privilege escalation. It distinguishes horizontal escalation, involving access to other users' resources, from vertical escalation, involving access to administrative privileges, and introduces insecure direct object references.

## Source excerpt

This blog post explores the most common vulnerabilities related to the authorization process.