CWE-1294: Insecure Security Identifier Mechanism | Glexia
CWE-1294 (Insecure Security Identifier Mechanism) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE ATT&CK context.
Glexia's Take · Automated analysis
CWE-1294: Insecure Security Identifier Mechanism
Insecure Security Identifier Mechanism 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-1294 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-1294, 4.20.
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Official CWE Definition
CWE-1294: Insecure Security Identifier Mechanism
The System-on-Chip (SoC) implements a Security Identifier mechanism to differentiate what actions are allowed or disallowed when a transaction originates from an entity. However, the Security Identifiers are not correctly implemented.
Systems-On-Chip (Integrated circuits and hardware engines) implement Security Identifiers to differentiate/identify actions originated from various agents. These actions could be 'read', 'write', 'program', 'reset', 'fetch', 'compute', etc. Security identifiers are generated and assigned to every agent in the System (SoC) that is either capable of generating an action or receiving an action from another agent. Every agent could be assigned a unique, Security Identifier based on its trust level or privileges. A broad class of flaws can exist in the Security Identifier process, including but not limited to missing security identifiers, improper conversion of security identifiers, incorrect generation of security identifiers, etc.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- Missing validation
- Unsafe defaults
- Insufficient authorization or memory-safety invariant
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
Related CWEs
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ATT&CK Relevance
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