NIST SP 800-53 rev5 · System and Services Acquisition
SA-15 Development Process, Standards, and Tools
Mitigates 14 ATT&CK techniques, used by 8 threats in this month's news.
Why it matters this month
Threats in SecurityTabs news using techniques this control mitigates.
Weaknesses it helps against
Through the techniques typically used to exploit them (CTID, CISA KEV).
- CWE-7982 techniquesUse of Hard-coded CredentialsA password or key is baked into the product, identical on every install and easy to find.
- CWE-11881 techniquesInitialization of a Resource with an Insecure DefaultThe product ships insecure by default, and many installations never change it.
- CWE-1191 techniquesImproper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCode reads or writes past the end of a buffer, the root of most classic memory-corruption exploits.
- CWE-1201 techniquesBuffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Input is copied into a fixed-size buffer without checking its length, overwriting whatever follows.
- CWE-1211 techniquesStack-based Buffer OverflowAn overflow on the stack can overwrite the return address and redirect the program to attacker code.
- CWE-1221 techniquesHeap-based Buffer OverflowAn overflow on the heap corrupts neighbouring objects, often turned into code execution.
- CWE-1251 techniquesOut-of-bounds ReadCode reads beyond a buffer, leaking secrets such as keys or memory addresses that defeat other defences.
- CWE-2841 techniquesImproper Access ControlRestrictions on who can access a resource are missing or wrong.
- CWE-2851 techniquesImproper AuthorizationThe system checks who you are but not whether you're allowed to do what you're asking.
- CWE-2871 techniquesImproper AuthenticationThe system doesn't properly prove who a user is, so attackers get in as someone else.
Techniques it mitigates
- T1078Valid Accounts56 users
- T1552.001Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files41 users
- T1552.004Unsecured Credentials: Private Keys22 users
- T1078.004Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts20 users
- T1078.003Valid Accounts: Local Accounts19 users
- T1528Steal Application Access Token13 users
- T1195.001Supply Chain Compromise: Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools10 users
- T1552.002Unsecured Credentials: Credentials in Registry10 users
- T1213.003Data from Information Repositories: Code Repositories9 users
- T1078.001Valid Accounts: Default Accounts6 users
- T1552Unsecured Credentials6 users
- T1552.006Unsecured Credentials: Group Policy Preferences5 users
- T1558.004Steal or Forge Kerberos Tickets: AS-REP Roasting1 users
- T1574.002T1574.0020 users
Weaknesses from each CVE's CVE Record (CWE, © MITRE). Techniques: MITRE ATT&CK®. Technique ↔ control and CVE ↔ technique links: Center for Threat-Informed Defense Mappings Explorer (NIST SP 800-53 rev5; CISA KEV). Plain-language explainers are SecurityTabs editorial. Mapping version rev5/attack-16.1.