CVE-2023-21433

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

Guides setting of default permissions to the minimum required level.

Establishes roles, responsibilities, and authorization processes for all configuration management activities.

Procedures establish authorization rules for physical and environmental access, limiting improper authorization.

Training covers proper setting of permissions on resources, reducing incorrect default or inherited permissions after deployment.

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

The control's documentation requirement reduces improper authorization by ensuring only mission-justified actions bypass authentication.

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

Lifecycle management can encompass permission settings, yet the control is too broad to specifically mitigate incorrect defaults.

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.

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.