Audit
A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.
Summary
Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.
Weaknesses in this category are related to the design and architecture of audit-based components of the system. Frequently these deal with logging user activities in order to identify attackers and modifications to the system. The weaknesses in this category could lead to a degradation of the quality of the audit capability if they are not addressed when designing or implementing a secure architecture.
Weaknesses
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes output that is written to logs.
Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information.
When a security-critical event occurs, the product either does not record the event or omits important details about the event when logging it.
The product logs too much information, making log files hard to process and possibly hindering recovery efforts or forensic analysis after an attack.
The product records security-relevant information according to an alternate name of the affected entity, instead of the canonical name.
The product does not record or display information that would be important for identifying the source or nature of an attack, or determining if an action is safe.
Concepts
This view organizes weaknesses according to common architectural security tactics. It is intended to assist architects in identifying potential mistakes that can be ma...
See Also
- A Catalog of Security Architecture Weaknesses.
2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)
- Understanding Software Vulnerabilities Related to Architectural Security Tactics: An Empirical Investigation of Chromium, PHP and Thunderbird.
2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)
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