CVE-2026-103956

Explicitly identifies and limits actions permitted without authentication, preventing critical functions from being exposed.

Access enforcement requires prior authentication before any authorization decision for critical functions.

Least privilege reduces the blast radius of any insecure default permissions that remain after initialization.

Baseline configuration directly requires documenting and maintaining secure initial settings instead of insecure defaults.

Configuration settings mandate the most restrictive values be applied at initialization, eliminating reliance on insecure factory defaults.

Directly mandates unique identification and authentication of users before access to functions requiring identity.

Pre-acquisition integrity checks can reject products known to ship with insecure defaults.

Managing identities and credentials is a prerequisite for authentication but does not itself enforce it on critical functions.

Directly requires authentication of users/services/hardware, which eliminates missing authentication for critical functions.

Defining and enforcing authorizations assumes prior authentication and therefore only partially mitigates the absence of authentication.

Protecting networks from unauthorized access can be undermined by missing authentication but does not address the root authentication gap.

Hardened baselines and configuration management directly replace insecure defaults with secure settings.

Mandating authentication requirements for critical functions at the requirements-gathering stage ensures that essential operations are not left unprotected by missing login or verification mechanisms.