CVE-2023-1803

Detects unauthorized successful logons resulting from improper authentication implementations.

Documented procedures ensure personnel are trained on authentication mechanisms, tangibly lowering the risk of improper authentication being exploited.

Security awareness training instructs users on secure authentication practices and avoiding credential compromise.

Training on authentication mechanisms and best practices decreases the occurrence of improper authentication.

Non-repudiation requires strong authentication mechanisms to irrefutably attribute performed actions to specific individuals or processes.

Session content review can reveal authentication bypasses or failures in session establishment.

Review of authentication-related audit records can detect improper authentication mechanisms or bypasses.

Assessments check authentication mechanisms for correct implementation and effectiveness, reducing successful authentication bypass attempts.

Proper identity management reduces alternate-name collisions but does not guarantee canonicalization inside the auth decision.

Strong authentication mechanisms directly prevent name-based bypass when they enforce canonical name checks.

Authorization policy enforcement assumes correct identity; the weakness occurs before policy is applied.

A.5.15 only requires defining and documenting an access control policy plus requirements; it does not itself enforce rules or stop alternate-name authentication bypasses from being exploitable.

A.5.16 manages the lifecycle, uniqueness, and accountability of identities; it has no bearing on a product that authenticates by name but fails to canonicalize or check alternate names for the same resource/actor, so the weakness remains present and exploitable.

Proper management of authentication credentials can include rules against duplicate or alias identities.

A.5.18 governs the provisioning, review, and revocation of already-granted access rights to authenticated identities; it does not address or stop the distinct flaw in which authentication logic accepts an alternate name that bypasses the check.

Security requirements specified early and verified through testing drive the consistent implementation of authentication mechanisms, decreasing the likelihood that authentication steps are omitted or incorrectly applied.