{"@ID": "671", "@Name": "Lack of Administrator Control over Security", "@Abstraction": "Class", "@Structure": "Simple", "@Status": "Draft", "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.", "Extended_Description": "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.", "Related_Weaknesses": {"Related_Weakness": {"@Nature": "ChildOf", "@CWE_ID": "657", "@View_ID": "1000", "@Ordinal": "Primary"}}, "Weakness_Ordinalities": {"Weakness_Ordinality": {"Ordinality": "Primary"}}, "Applicable_Platforms": {"Language": {"@Class": "Not Language-Specific", "@Prevalence": "Undetermined"}}, "Modes_Of_Introduction": {"Introduction": [{"Phase": "Architecture and Design", "Note": "OMISSION: This weakness is caused by missing a security tactic during the architecture and design phase."}, {"Phase": "Implementation"}]}, "Common_Consequences": {"Consequence": {"Scope": "Other", "Impact": "Varies by Context", "Note": "This introduces resultant weaknesses or prevents the product from operating at a level of security that is desired by the administrator."}}, "Demonstrative_Examples": {"Demonstrative_Example": {"@Demonstrative_Example_ID": "DX-14", "Intro_Text": "The following code is an example of an internal hard-coded password in the back-end:", "Example_Code": [{"@Nature": "Bad", "@Language": "C", "xhtml:div": {"xhtml:div": {"@style": "margin-left:1em;", "xhtml:div": {"xhtml:div": {"@style": "margin-left:1em;", "xhtml:div": {"xhtml:br": null, "#text": "printf(\"Incorrect Password!\\n\");return(0)"}}, "xhtml:br": [null, null], "#text": "if (strcmp(password, \"Mew!\")) {}printf(\"Entering Diagnostic Mode...\\n\");return(1);"}}, "#text": "int VerifyAdmin(char *password) {}"}, "#text_blocks": ["int VerifyAdmin(char *password) {", "if (strcmp(password, \"Mew!\")) {", "printf(\"Incorrect Password!\\n\");", "return(0)", "}", "printf(\"Entering Diagnostic Mode...\\n\");", "return(1);", "}"]}, {"@Nature": "Bad", "@Language": "Java", "xhtml:div": {"xhtml:div": {"@style": "margin-left:1em;", "xhtml:div": {"@style": "margin-left:1em;", "#text": "return(0)"}, "xhtml:br": [null, null], "#text": "if (!password.equals(\"Mew!\")) {}//Diagnostic Modereturn(1);"}, "#text": "int VerifyAdmin(String password) {}"}, "#text_blocks": ["int VerifyAdmin(String password) {", "if (!password.equals(\"Mew!\")) {", "return(0)", "}", "//Diagnostic Mode", "return(1);", "}"]}], "Body_Text": "Every instance of this program can be placed into diagnostic mode with the same password. Even worse is the fact that if this program is distributed as a binary-only distribution, it is very difficult to change that password or disable this \"functionality.\""}}, "Observed_Examples": {"Observed_Example": [{"Reference": "CVE-2022-29953", "Description": "Condition Monitor firmware has a maintenance interface with hard-coded credentials", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29953"}, {"Reference": "CVE-2000-0127", "Description": "GUI configuration tool does not enable a security option when a checkbox is selected, although that option is honored when manually set in the configuration file.", "Link": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2000-0127"}]}, "Mapping_Notes": {"Usage": "Allowed-with-Review", "Rationale": "This CWE entry is a Class and might have Base-level children that would be more appropriate", "Comments": "Examine children of this entry to see if there is a better fit", "Reasons": {"Reason": {"@Type": "Abstraction"}}}, "Content_History": 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