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confused deputy problem: a standalone construct

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Computer security

a flaw in which a privileged program is tricked by a less privileged caller into misusing its authority on the caller's behalf.

In computer security, confused deputy problem refers to a flaw in which a privileged program is tricked by a less privileged caller into misusing its authority on the caller's behalf. This meaning comes from Hardy (1988) in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review.[1]

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References

Hardy, N. (1988). The Confused Deputy: (or why capabilities might have been invented). ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 22(4), 36-38. https://doi.org/10.1145/54289.871709

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