Hunting the #1 API Vulnerability (BOLA) in Your Own REST API
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Your scanner gave you a green checkmark. Your API is still leaking every user's data. That is the uncomfortable truth about the most common API flaw in the wild. Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA), also called IDOR, sits at number one on the OWASP API Security Top 10. It is not an exotic bug. It is a request that looks completely valid, from a logged-in user, hitting a normal endpoint, that just happens to return someone else's record. Signature-based scanners wave it through because…
1Key Takeaways
- Your scanner gave you a green checkmark.
- Your API is still leaking every user's data.
- That is the uncomfortable truth about the most common API flaw in the wild.
- Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA), also called IDOR, sits at number one on the OWASP API Security Top 10.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that your scanner gave you a green checkmark.
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