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CWE-671Lack of Administrator Control over Security

Category: other

Description

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.

Common consequences· 1

  • Other — Varies by Context

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/671.html

(incoming)1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
VulnerabilityCVE-2025-24024cve-2025-240240%live

Related by meaning· 6

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

CWE
Use of Hard-coded Credentials
CWE
Use of Hard-coded Password
CWE
Use of Default Credentials
CWE
Use of Weak Credentials
CWE
Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants
CWE
Use of Default Password
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.