CWE-289 28 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-289: Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name

Overview

CWE-289 (Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product performs authentication based on the name of a resource being accessed, or the name of the actor performing the access, but it does not properly check all possible names for that resource or actor.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-43617 2026-05-20 Rsync version 3.4.2 and prior contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the rsync daemon's hostname-based access control list enforcement when configured with chroot. Attackers can bypass hostn…
CVE-2026-3184 2026-04-03 A flaw was found in util-linux. Improper hostname canonicalization in the `login(1)` utility, when invoked with the `-h` option, can modify the supplied remote hostname before setting `PAM_RHOST`. A r…
CVE-2026-32036 2026-03-19 OpenClaw gateway plugin versions prior to 2026.2.26 contain a path traversal vulnerability that allows remote attackers to bypass route authentication checks by manipulating /api/channels paths with e…
CVE-2026-23903 2026-02-09 Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name vulnerability in Apache Shiro. This issue affects Apache Shiro: before 2.0.7. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.7, which fixes the issue. The i…
CVE-2026-24058 2026-01-22 Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server for the command line. Versions 0.11.2 and below have a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that allows an attacker to impersonate any user (including …
CVE-2025-55130 2026-01-20 A flaw in Node.js’s Permissions model allows attackers to bypass `--allow-fs-read` and `--allow-fs-write` restrictions using crafted relative symlink paths. By chaining directories and symlinks, a scr…
CVE-2025-14777 2025-12-16 A flaw was found in Keycloak. An IDOR (Broken Access Control) vulnerability exists in the admin API endpoints for authorization resource management, specifically in ResourceSetService and PermissionTi…
CVE-2025-13613 2025-12-10 The Elated Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. This is due to the plugin not properly logging in a user with the data that…
CVE-2025-64521 2025-11-19 authentik is an open-source Identity Provider. Prior to versions 2025.8.5 and 2025.10.2, when authenticating with client_id and client_secret to an OAuth provider, authentik creates a service account …
CVE-2025-64343 2025-11-07 (conda) Constructor is a tool that enables users to create installers for conda package collections. In versions 3.12.2 and below, the installation directory inherits permissions from its parent dire…
CVE-2025-60375 2025-10-09 The authentication mechanism in Perfex CRM before 3.3.1 allows attackers to bypass login credentials due to insufficient server-side validation. By sending empty username and password parameters in th…
CVE-2025-41248 2025-09-16 The Spring Security annotation detection mechanism may not correctly resolve annotations on methods within type hierarchies with a parameterized super type with unbounded generics. This can be an issu…
CVE-2025-8415 2025-08-20 A vulnerability was found in the Cryostat HTTP API. Cryostat's HTTP API binds to all network interfaces, allowing possible external visibility and access to the API port if Network Policies are disabl…
CVE-2025-29266 2025-03-31 Unraid 7.0.0 before 7.0.1 allows remote users to access the Unraid WebGUI and web console as root without authentication if a container is running in Host networking mode with Use Tailscale enabled.
CVE-2024-11283 2025-03-14 The WP JobHunt plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in all versions up to, and including, 7.1. This is due to wp_ajax_google_api_login_callback function not properly verifying a…
CVE-2024-56511 2025-01-10 DataEase is an open source data visualization analysis tool. Prior to 2.10.4, there is a flaw in the authentication in the io.dataease.auth.filter.TokenFilter class, which can be bypassed and cause th…
CVE-2024-55634 2024-12-10 A vulnerability in Drupal Core allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Drupal Core: from 8.0.0 before 10.2.11, from 10.3.0 before 10.3.9, from 11.0.0 before 11.0.8.
CVE-2024-51996 2024-11-13 Symphony process is a module for the Symphony PHP framework which executes commands in sub-processes. When consuming a persisted remember-me cookie, Symfony does not check if the username persisted in…
CVE-2024-2098 2024-06-13 The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to an improper authorization check on the 'protectMediaLibrary' function in all versions up to, and including…
CVE-2024-34519 2024-05-05 Avantra Server 24.x before 24.0.7 and 24.1.x before 24.1.1 mishandles the security of dashboards, aka XAN-5367. If a user can create a dashboard with an auto-login user, data disclosure may occur. Acc…

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Description, Relationships, Other_Notes, Relationship_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-11-24 CWE Content Team 1.1 updated Observed_Examples
2009-07-27 CWE Content Team 1.5 updated Other_Notes, Potential_Mitigations, Theoretical_Notes
2011-03-29 CWE Content Team 1.12 updated Potential_Mitigations
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-05-03 CWE Content Team 2.11 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Relationships
2020-06-25 CWE Content Team 4.1 updated Potential_Mitigations
2022-10-13 CWE Content Team 4.9 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description, Type
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Detection_Factors, Observed_Examples, Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
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