CVE-2023-0572

Ensures audit logging process failures are checked and trigger defined responses instead of remaining unchecked.

Testing IR effectiveness identifies and drives fixes for unchecked error conditions that fail to initiate incident handling.

Mandates ongoing correlation, analysis, and response to monitoring results, reducing unchecked error conditions from control assessments.

Implements detection of unusual or exceptional conditions followed by safe mode entry, reducing the window for exploitation of unchecked conditions.

Training ensures users perform required checks for unusual or exceptional conditions as part of contingency roles, limiting attacker leverage from skipped validations.

Policy enforces checking and handling of error conditions as part of incident response processes.

Formal incident handling procedures enforce checking and acting on error conditions that could indicate security incidents.

Security testing routinely checks for unusual or exceptional inputs/conditions, identifying missing validation steps that flaw remediation then resolves.

Event analysis can surface consequences of unchecked errors but does not enforce error checking itself.

Runtime monitoring can detect anomalous behavior from ignored errors but does not prevent the coding flaw.

Requiring log generation makes ignored error conditions visible to monitoring, directly reducing the weakness impact.

Secure SDLC practices include proper exception and error handling, eliminating the root cause of CWE-391.

Logging can record unhandled exceptions but does not prevent the weakness itself.

Monitoring may detect symptoms of unhandled conditions but does not eliminate the root weakness.

Secure development life cycle requires systematic error handling, reducing unchecked conditions.

A.8.26 only requires that security requirements (including error handling) be identified and specified during development or acquisition; it does not itself enforce, implement, or prevent exploitation of unchecked error conditions in the resulting application.

A.8.27 mandates establishing and applying secure engineering principles (including secure-by-design, least privilege, hardening, and design reviews) but does not itself remove or rewrite the specific first-party code defect of ignoring error conditions; that is a coding flaw addressed by implementation or testing, not by mandating principles.