Controlling permissions is security-sensitive. It has led in the past to the following vulnerabilities:

Attackers can only damage what they have access to. Thus limiting their access is a good way to prevent them from wreaking havoc, but it has to be done properly.

This rule flags code that controls the access to resources and actions. The goal is to guide security code reviews.

More specifically it will raise issues on the following Spring code:

It will also raise issue on JSR-250 annotations @RolesAllowed, @PermitAll and @DenyAll from javax.annotation.security package.

Ask Yourself Whether

There is a risk if you answered yes to any of those questions.

Recommended Secure Coding Practices

At minimum, an access control system should:

See

Deprecated

This rule is deprecated, and will eventually be removed.