Analysis · curated 2 Oct 2026
Why AI Coding Agents Keep Writing Broken Access Control
First reported snyk.io
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Why it matters
AI coding agents generate authorization logic that compiles and passes review while enforcing the wrong policy, creating systemic access-control gaps that traditional pattern-matching scanners are not built to detect.
A Snyk blog analyzes why AI coding agents repeatedly produce broken access control flaws such as BOLA and IDOR, arguing that the authorization rules an agent violates belong to the application rather than to any known-bad signature database, so pattern-based scanning cannot catch them. The piece illustrates how an agent can write a correct-looking invoice endpoint that nonetheless lets any authenticated user read any record by changing a URL identifier.