Operation Level Access Control

V4.2.1

Verify that sensitive data and APIs are protected against Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) attacks targeting creation, reading, updating and deletion of records, such as creating or updating someone else's record, viewing everyone's records, or deleting all records.

Level 1 required: True

Level 2 required: True

Level 3 required: True

CWE: 639

V4.2.2

Verify that the application or framework enforces a strong anti-CSRF mechanism to protect authenticated functionality, and effective anti-automation or anti-CSRF protects unauthenticated functionality.

Level 1 required: True

Level 2 required: True

Level 3 required: True

CWE: 352

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