An attacker exploits a weakness in the configuration of access controls
						and is able to bypass the intended protection that these measures guard
						against and thereby obtain unauthorized access to the system or network.
						Sensitive functionality should always be protected with access controls.
						However configuring all but the most trivial access control systems can be
						very complicated and there are many opportunities for mistakes. If an
						attacker can learn of incorrectly configured access security settings, they
						may be able to exploit this in an attack. Most commonly, attackers would
						take advantage of controls that provided too little protection for sensitive
						activities in order to perform actions that should be denied to them. In
						some circumstances, an attacker may be able to take advantage of overly
						restrictive access control policies, initiating denial of services (if an
						application locks because it unexpectedly failed to be granted access) or
						causing other legitimate actions to fail due to security. The latter class
						of attacks, however, is usually less severe and easier to detect than
						attacks based on inadequate security restrictions. This attack pattern
						differs from CAPEC 1, "Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by
						ACLs" in that the latter describes attacks where sensitive functionality
						lacks access controls, where, in this pattern, the access control is
						present, but incorrectly configured.