CVE-2023-22858

Sanitizing equipment before off-site maintenance reduces the risk of files or directories containing sensitive data becoming accessible to external parties.

Enumerating systems surfaces externally reachable resources that would otherwise remain unmonitored and accessible.

Prevents public exposure of files or directories that should not be reachable by unauthenticated parties.

Decoy files and directories detect external access attempts and deflect attackers away from actual accessible resources.

Requiring an access control policy ensures authorization checks are defined and applied for critical functions.

Reviews of access controls detect missing authorization checks on critical functions or resources.

Documenting permitted unauthenticated actions prevents missing authorization by making all exceptions explicit and subject to organizational review.

Requiring attribute association with information prevents authorization from being performed without necessary security or privacy context.

Enforcing least-privilege permissions and authorization policies directly prevents unauthorized file/directory exposure.

Data-at-rest protections such as encryption or ACLs reduce the impact of unintended file exposure.

Logical segmentation and access protections stop external parties from reaching files that should remain internal.

Hardened configuration baselines commonly include file-system permission settings that limit external access.

By requiring competent outsiders to verify that every function enforces the need-to-know principle, the control lowers the likelihood that missing authorization checks persist undetected.