Lack of Administrator Control over Security

Opis

The product uses security features in a way that prevents the product's administrator from tailoring security settings to reflect the environment in which the product is being used. This introduces resultant weaknesses or prevents it from operating at a level of security that is desired by the administrator.

If the product's administrator does not have the ability to manage security-related decisions at all times, then protecting the product from outside threats - including the product's developer - can become impossible. For example, a hard-coded account name and password cannot be changed by the administrator, thus exposing that product to attacks that the administrator can not prevent.

Skutki

• Other

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Przykłady podatności

• CVE-2022-29953 Condition Monitor firmware has a maintenance interface with hard-coded credentials
• CVE-2000-0127 GUI configuration tool does not enable a security option when a checkbox is selected, although that option is honored when manually set in the configuration file.

Słabość nadrzędna

• CWE-657 Violation of Secure Design Principles

Słabości podrzędne

• CWE-447 Unimplemented or Unsupported Feature in UI
• CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Kiedy powstaje

• Architecture and Design — OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase.
• Implementation

Dotyczy

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