# Multi-Tenant Application Security Cheat Sheet — Key Risks

> Cross-Tenant Data Leakage: Bugs or misconfigurations exposing one tenant's data to another.

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Cross-Tenant Data Leakage: Bugs or misconfigurations exposing one tenant's data to another. Tenant Impersonation: Attackers gaining access to another tenant's context or resources. Broken Tenant Isolation: Insufficient separation at database, cache, storage, or compute layers. Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR): Accessing resources by manipulating tenant/resource IDs. Noisy Neighbor Attacks: One tenant exhausting shared resources, impacting others (DoS). Privilege Escalation Across Tenants: Exploiting admin functions to access other tenants. Tenant Context Injection: Manipulating tenant identifiers in requests, tokens, or headers. Shared Resource Poisoning: Cache poisoning, queue injection, or storage pollution affecting other tenants. Insecure Tenant Onboarding/Offboarding: Incomplete provisioning or data retention after deletion. Audit &amp; Compliance Gaps: Insufficient tenant-specific logging for regulatory requirements.

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