Sensitive business flow exceeds its permitted frequency or allocation
An actor exceeds an intended recipient, reservation, workflow or tenant allocation through repeated otherwise valid operations.
Candidate CWE: CWE-799
Test hypothesis#
Define the product rule and one synthetic recipient or allocation. In a local fixture with recording stubs, compare a permitted operation and the smallest sequence exceeding its configured limit; vary only one entry point, identity budget key, batch form or retry condition at a time.
Evidence required#
Record the intended allocation owner, all fixture identities, requests and committed effects, before/after counters and successful legitimate control. Explain the actual misuse rather than reporting missing automation friction. CWE-799 is a candidate when interaction frequency is the missing control.
Rule out false positives#
Automation, repeated valid actions, absent CAPTCHA or shared quotas may be intentional. Establish a prohibited business outcome; do not send real notifications, purchase scarce inventory or extrapolate unmeasured scale.
Playbook and command references#
- Resource budgets and sensitive business flows — Trace request fan-out, retries, recipient limits and tenant quotas using tiny local limits, recording stubs and measured downstream effects.
- Workflow invariants, replay, idempotency, and races — Find security consequences in workflow ordering and concurrency, with serial controls and durable-state evidence.
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Referenced by these target playbooks#
Report checklist#
- Capture the affected version, configuration, identities, and object ownership.
- Preserve a valid baseline and a negative control.
- Reproduce the forbidden data access, action, or state change on controlled fixtures.
- Explain the intended security rule and why the observed behavior violates it.
- State prerequisites, uncertainty, cleanup, and the smallest demonstrated impact.
Conditional ATT&CK mapping#
No direct ATT&CK mapping selected. Record the weakness and demonstrated impact without forcing an adversary-behavior classification. See the mapping guide.