What is a confused deputy? — A confused deputy is a computer program that is innocently fooled by some other party into misusing its authority. It is a specific type of privilege escalation. In information security, the confused deputy problem is often cited as an example of why capability-based security is important, as capability systems protect against this whereas access control list-based systems do not. The classic example is a Fortran compiler that creates a billing record for each use. A user was able to tell the compiler to output a binary with the same name as the billing file, overwriting it.

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