Permission Abuse

Definitions

1. The misuse of legitimate permissions to access, alter, or extract data or perform actions beyond intended business use. Permission abuse often does not require exploiting a software bug because the harmful action is enabled by overly broad or poorly monitored access rights.

   In plain English: Using granted permissions in a harmful or unauthorized way.

   Example: "The incident was not a classic hack; it was permission abuse by a support role that could export far more customer data than expected."

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