CVE-2023-5165

Documenting requirements and authorizing remote access ensures proper protection of alternate paths.

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.

Mandating authorization before wireless connections are allowed prevents missing authorization for wireless access.

The control requires authorization before allowing mobile device connections, directly mitigating missing authorization for system access.

Requiring approvals for account creation and specifying authorizations ensures authorization is not missing for system access.

Access control policy directly requires protection of all entry points to restricted functionality.

Managing access rights must cover every alternate path that could bypass intended restrictions.

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.

A.5.8 integrates risk assessment, requirements elicitation and governance into the project lifecycle so that authorization needs can be identified and specified; it does not itself perform or enforce authorization checks, so the missing-authorization weakness can still be present and exploitable.

Privileged access rights must be enforced on every possible route to privileged functions.

Secure development lifecycle includes design reviews that should identify and close alternate paths.