CVE-2023-34449

Requires detection and response to audit logging failures as an unusual or exceptional condition.

Implements detection of unusual or exceptional conditions followed by safe mode entry, reducing the window for exploitation of unchecked conditions.

Training ensures users perform required checks for unusual or exceptional conditions as part of contingency roles, limiting attacker leverage from skipped validations.

IR testing directly validates checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that could indicate security incidents.

Requires ongoing monitoring of organization-defined metrics and analysis, enabling checks for unusual or exceptional conditions.

Security testing routinely checks for unusual or exceptional inputs/conditions, identifying missing validation steps that flaw remediation then resolves.

Requires detection of unusual conditions followed by a controlled transition to the defined failure state.

MTTF determination forces explicit checks for conditions that precede predictable component failure.

Secure SDLC practices directly enforce proper error-handling and return-value checking during development.

Logging can record unhandled exceptions but does not prevent the weakness itself.

Monitoring may detect symptoms of unhandled conditions but does not eliminate the root weakness.

Secure SDLC mandates return-value checks and error handling, directly reducing CWE-253.

A.8.26 requires that security requirements (including input validation, resilience against injections, output controls, error handling, etc.) be identified and specified during development or acquisition; it does not itself enforce, implement or assure correct checking of function return values and therefore does not stop exploitation of CWE-253 defects that remain present.

A.8.27 establishes and applies secure engineering principles (e.g. least privilege, security by design, distrust external input, fail securely) and requires design reviews against known attack patterns; CWE-253 is a specific code-level implementation error in checking function returns that these principles and reviews do not stop from being introduced or exploited.