Cyber Resilience

NIST 800-53 r5 · Controls catalogue · Family SA

SA-8Security and Privacy Engineering Principles

Apply the following systems security and privacy engineering principles in the specification, design, development, implementation, and modification of the system and system components: {{ insert: param, sa-8_prm_1 }}.

Last updated: 04 July 2026 08:17 UTC

Cumulative inbound coverage

How completely the frameworks we cross-walk collectively cover this — the verdict is the strongest single mapping (overlapping partials are not summed); breadth shows the corroboration behind it.

Collective: mostly · 6 mapping(s) from 3 framework(s): CSF 2.0 3 (mostly) · OWASP-Web 2 (partial) · ASVS 5.0 1 (partial)

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Implementations targeting this control (0)

ATT&CK techniques this control mitigates (20)

Weaknesses this control addresses (9)AI

CWEs ranked by how often they appear in real CVEs. The rationale describes how this control reduces exploitability of each weakness class.

CWE Name CVEs Why this control addresses it
CWE-284Improper Access Control5,385Complete-mediation and least-privilege principles ensure proper access-control design and enforcement.
CWE-269Improper Privilege Management3,104Least-privilege and separation-of-duties principles prevent improper privilege management.
CWE-306Missing Authentication for Critical Function2,820Complete-mediation principle requires authentication for critical functions.
CWE-732Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource1,875Permission-assignment and least-privilege principles prevent incorrect critical-resource permissions.
CWE-693Protection Mechanism Failure614Engineering principles ensure protection mechanisms are correctly specified and implemented.
CWE-250Execution with Unnecessary Privileges333Least-privilege engineering principle directly reduces execution with unnecessary privileges.
CWE-653Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization66Separation-of-privilege and least-common-mechanism principles enforce proper isolation.
CWE-636Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')35Fail-safe-defaults principle prevents systems from failing open.
CWE-657Violation of Secure Design Principles19Control explicitly requires application of secure design principles throughout the lifecycle.

Top CVEs where this control is the strongest mitigation

CVE Risk CVSS EPSS Match
CVE-2025-301237.09.80.0041good
CVE-2025-12427.09.10.0044good
CVE-2025-8857 UPD7.09.80.0049good
CVE-2026-39983 UPD5.58.60.0219partial
CVE-2025-545505.58.10.0058good
CVE-2022-42948 KEV10.09.80.0271partial
CVE-2026-12217.09.80.0044good
CVE-2025-255707.09.80.0200partial
CVE-2025-276747.09.80.0065good
CVE-2025-594077.09.80.0052partial
CVE-2026-403157.09.80.0030good
CVE-2026-349347.09.80.0053good
CVE-2025-45784 UPD7.09.80.0049partial
CVE-2023-332427.09.60.0109partial
CVE-2025-106815.58.60.0027good
CVE-2026-267425.58.10.0027good
CVE-2025-8974 UPD1.53.70.0049partial

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