CWE-1292: Incorrect Conversion of Security Identifiers | Glexia
CWE-1292 (Incorrect Conversion of Security Identifiers) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE ATT&CK context.
Glexia's Take · Automated analysis
CWE-1292: Incorrect Conversion of Security Identifiers
Incorrect Conversion of Security Identifiers represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Confidentiality,Integrity,Availability,Access Control: Modify Memory,Read Memory,DoS: Resource Consumption (Other),Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands,Gain Privileges or Assume Identity,Quality Degradation
Developer Pattern
CWE-1292 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.
Automation confidence
high confidence from CWE-1292, 4.20.
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Official CWE Definition
CWE-1292: Incorrect Conversion of Security Identifiers
The product implements a conversion mechanism to map certain bus-transaction signals to security identifiers. However, if the conversion is incorrectly implemented, untrusted agents can gain unauthorized access to the asset.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Because of the incorrect conversion, the security identifier information is either lost or could be modified in such a way that an untrusted leader can access the AES-Key registers.
Remediation
- Architecture and Design: Security identifier decoders must be reviewed for design inconsistency and common weaknesses.
- Implementation: Access and programming flows must be tested in pre-silicon and post-silicon testing.
Detection
- Code review
- SAST
- DAST
- Focused regression tests
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.