Broken Access Control vulnerabilities are common in modern applications since the design and implementation of access control mechanisms rely on a highly complex ecosystem of multiple components and processes. In such a complex, changing ecosystem, security teams should apply several legal, organizational, and business logic to ensure the tech stack is watertight and has no room left for hackers to exploit the system.
As it sounds, the job isn’t easy, and there are fair chances of unidentified vulnerabilities on account of a formal approach to tackling security. The traditional method of identifying access-related vulnerabilities is to rely on manual testing. Due to the lack of automated, continuous detection, access control vulnerabilities often remain unnoticed and are potentially targeted by hackers at a much higher intensity.