CWE-556: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Use of Identity… | Glexia
CWE-556 (ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Use of Identity Impersonation) weakness overview with consequences, detection methods, mitigations, related CVEs and MITRE…
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CWE-556: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Use of Identity Impersonation
ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Use of Identity Impersonation represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Access Control: Gain Privileges or Assume Identity
Developer Pattern
CWE-556 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-556, 4.20.
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Official CWE Definition
CWE-556: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Use of Identity Impersonation
Configuring an ASP.NET application to run with impersonated credentials may give the application unnecessary privileges.
The use of impersonated credentials allows an ASP.NET application to run with either the privileges of the client on whose behalf it is executing or with arbitrary privileges granted in its configuration.
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: Use the least privilege principle.
Detection
- Code review
- SAST
- DAST
- Focused regression tests
Mappings
Related CVEs, CWEs, and ATT&CK context
Related CWEs
ATT&CK Relevance
ATT&CK relevance is shown only when reviewed or responsibly inferred.