CWE-654Reliance on a Single Factor in a Security Decision

Description

Common consequences· 2

• Access Control — Gain Privileges or Assume Identity
  If the single factor is compromised (e.g. by theft or spoofing), then the integrity of the entire security mechanism can be violated with respect to the user that is identified by that factor.
• Non-Repudiation — Hide Activities
  It can become difficult or impossible for the product to be able to distinguish between legitimate activities by the entity who provided the factor, versus illegitimate activities by an attacker.

Potential mitigations· 2

• [Architecture and Design]Use multiple simultaneous checks before granting access to critical operations or granting critical privileges. A weaker but helpful mitigation is to use several successive checks (multiple layers of security).
• [Architecture and Design]Use redundant access rules on different choke points (e.g., firewalls).

Related CAPEC attack patterns· 10

Exploits (incoming)10

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.