CVE-2023-25131

Directly requires implementation of compliant authentication mechanisms to cryptographic modules, preventing improper authentication.

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.

Vulnerability scanning will discover default-password instances, enabling remediation, yet does not itself prevent their initial use.

Credential management directly requires replacing default passwords with unique, strong credentials.

Authentication policies can enforce non-default passwords but do not address the full scope of credential lifecycle.

Authorization policies assume credentials already exist and are not default; least-privilege helps limit impact but does not prevent defaults.

Hardened configuration baselines explicitly prohibit default passwords, covering most of the weakness but not all identity-management aspects.

Mandating segregated approval and oversight for non-human identities reduces the chance that weak or orphaned credentials can be exploited for unauthorized authentication.

Mandates secure handling and change of authentication secrets, directly addressing default passwords.

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.

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (least privilege, default-deny, never-trust/always-verify, MFA, end-to-end encryption of requests, distrust-external-input, secure session control, and explicit authentication/authorization in every layer), which directly stops most improper-authentication flaws from being exploitable; the bounded remainder is insufficient-proof cases that live only in the strength or correctness of the credential itself (IA-5/IA-2 territory).