CVE-2026-92038

AC-3 directly requires enforcement of access authorizations via the protection mechanism itself.

AC-4 mandates use of information flow enforcement mechanisms to control data movement.

SC-2 requires separation of user and system functionality as a protection mechanism.

SC-28 requires protection mechanisms for information at rest.

SC-3 requires isolation of security functions from non-security functions.

SC-7 requires boundary protection mechanisms to monitor and control external communications.

Enforcing authentication directly implements a core protection mechanism whose absence or misuse is the CWE.

Defining and enforcing access authorizations is a protection mechanism; proper use prevents the CWE.

Cryptographic and integrity controls are protection mechanisms whose correct deployment mitigates the CWE.

Encryption and integrity protections for transit are explicit protection mechanisms.

Logical network protections are protection mechanisms whose failure matches the CWE.

Hardened configuration baselines ensure protection mechanisms are correctly applied and maintained.

Systematic verification that security mechanisms operate according to defined standards reduces the likelihood that protection mechanisms are bypassed or disabled.

A.8.26 only requires that security requirements (including protection mechanisms) be identified and specified during development or acquisition; it does not itself mandate, implement, or enforce the mechanisms that would remove CWE-693 instances from the product.

A.8.28 mandates secure coding practices, principles, standards, design, peer review, defect removal, prohibition of insecure techniques (e.g. hard-coded passwords), and evaluation of common errors before deployment, which directly removes many instances of missing or incorrectly used protection mechanisms from first-party code; the bounded remainder is third-party components and post-deployment issues handled by other clauses (8.8, 8.29).