OWASP API1:2023 Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) 🔒💔

To grasp this security vulnerability, it's essential to delve into the concept of Object Level Authorization first. 🧑‍💻🔍

What is Object Level Authorization ❓🔐

Object level authorization is an access control mechanism that is usually implemented at the code level to validate that a user can only access the objects that they should have permission to access. 🚫👤🚀

Every API endpoint that receives an ID of an object, and performs any action on the object, should implement object-level authorization checks. …

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