CVE-2023-21422

Documented procedures facilitate correct implementation and ongoing management of authorization decisions.

Periodic reviews identify and correct flaws in authorization decisions or enforcement.

Establishing permitted attributes and values, plus auditing changes, ensures authorization decisions are based on correctly managed policy data.

Explicitly mandates authorizing remote access types before permitting connections, directly mitigating improper authorization.

The control explicitly requires authorization of each wireless access type prior to permitting connections.

Mandating explicit authorization of mobile device connections reduces the risk of improper authorization decisions for system access.

Specifying access authorizations for each account and requiring approvals for account requests enforces proper authorization decisions.

Requires explicit authorization for individuals to use external systems to access or handle organization-controlled information.

PR.AA-01 supplies managed identities and access-request workflows that can support downstream authorization decisions, yet does nothing to enforce or verify authorization checks inside a product, leaving CWE-285 fully unaddressed by this control alone.

Network segmentation/zero-trust limits external reachability (partial prevention of exploitation) but leaves application-level authorization logic untouched, so the CWE remains fully introducible and only one facet of its risk is addressed.

By requiring documented authorization rules and periodic policy reviews, the control makes it less likely that authorization decisions will be omitted or implemented inconsistently across applications.

Mapping access rights to information classification and business requirements forces correct enforcement of authorization decisions, blocking the incorrect authorization weakness at the policy and implementation stage.

Enforcing policy-driven approval and role-change reviews stops incorrect or stale authorization decisions from remaining in effect after job changes or terminations.

Independent reviewers evaluate whether authorization logic matches policy, thereby reducing the window in which incorrect or missing authorization checks remain in production.

By requiring managers to verify that authorization decisions match policy and to remediate deviations, the control limits the persistence of incorrect or missing authorization checks.