Lesson Plan Title: Using an Access Control Matrix

 

Concept / Topic To Teach:

In a role-based access control scheme, a role represents a set of access permissions and privileges. A user can be assigned one or more roles. A role-based access control scheme normally consists of two parts: role permission management and role assignment. A broken role-based access control scheme might allow a user to perform accesses that are not allowed by his/her assigned roles, or somehow allow privilege escalation to an unauthorized role.

 

General Goal(s):

Each user is a member of a role that is allowed to access only certain resources. Your goal is to explore the access control rules that govern this site. Only the [Admin] group should have access to the 'Account Manager' resource.

 

Solution:

 

This exercise is straightforward. You need to find a user where you can access a resource that you shouldn't be able to access.

After a few attempts you will learn that Larry can access resources of the role Account Manager.

 

Figure 1 Lesson 9

 

Figure 2 Lesson 9 Completed