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Insufficient Granularity of Access Control

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A system weakness characterized by access controls designed too coarsely to assure the required security level , making it impossible to configure access permissions that satisfy the required least privileges.

It is a design flaw and is distinct from improperly configured access controls.

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The product implements access controls via a policy or other feature with the intention to disable or restrict accesses (reads and/or writes) to assets in a system from untrusted agents. However, implemented access controls lack required granularity, which renders the control policy too broad because it allows accesses from unauthorized agents to the security-sensitive assets.

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