Nama: Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization

The product does not properly compartmentalize or isolate functionality, processes, or resources that require different privilege levels, rights, or permissions.

Informasi Umum

Mode Pengenalan

Architecture and Design : COMMISSION: This weakness refers to an incorrect design related to an architectural security tactic.
Implementation

Platform yang Berlaku

Bahasa

Kelas: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Konsekuensi Umum

Cakupan	Dampak	Kemungkinan
Access Control	Gain Privileges or Assume Identity, Bypass Protection Mechanism Catatan: The exploitation of a weakness in low-privileged areas of the software can be leveraged to reach higher-privileged areas without having to overcome any additional obstacles, extending the scope of the damage to higher-privileged users..

Contoh yang Diamati

Referensi	Deskripsi
CVE-2021-33096	Improper isolation of shared resource in a network-on-chip leads to denial of service
CVE-2019-6260	Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) device implements Advanced High-performance Bus (AHB) bridges that do not require authentication for arbitrary read and write access to the BMC's physical address space from the host, and possibly the network [REF-1138].

Mitigasi yang Memungkinkan

Phases : Architecture and Design
Break up privileges between different modules, objects, or entities. Minimize the interfaces between modules and require strong access control between them.

Metode Deteksi

Automated Static Analysis - Binary or Bytecode

Efektivitas : SOAR Partial

Manual Static Analysis - Source Code

Efektivitas : High

Architecture or Design Review

Efektivitas : High

Catatan Pemetaan Kerentanan

Justifikasi : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Komentar : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Catatan

There is a close association with CWE-250 (Execution with Unnecessary Privileges). CWE-653 is about providing separate components for each "privilege"; CWE-250 is about ensuring that each component has the least amount of privileges possible. In this fashion, compartmentalization becomes one mechanism for reducing privileges.
The term "Separation of Privilege" is used in several different ways in the industry, but they generally combine two closely related principles: compartmentalization (this node) and using only one factor in a security decision (CWE-654). Proper compartmentalization implicitly introduces multiple factors into a security decision, but there can be cases in which multiple factors are required for authentication or other mechanisms that do not involve compartmentalization, such as performing all required checks on a submitted certificate. It is likely that CWE-653 and CWE-654 will provoke further discussion.

Referensi

REF-196

The Protection of Information in Computer Systems
Jerome H. Saltzer, Michael D. Schroeder.
http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/protection/

REF-535

Separation of Privilege
Sean Barnum, Michael Gegick.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220126060047/https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/bsi/articles/knowledge/principles/separation-of-privilege

REF-1138

CVE-2019-6260: Gaining control of BMC from the host processor
Stewart Smith.
https://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2019/01/23/cve-2019-6260:-gaining-control-of-bmc-from-the-host-processor/

REF-1479

State-of-the-Art Resources (SOAR) for Software Vulnerability Detection, Test, and Evaluation
Gregory Larsen, E. Kenneth Hong Fong, David A. Wheeler, Rama S. Moorthy.
https://www.ida.org/-/media/feature/publications/s/st/stateoftheart-resources-soar-for-software-vulnerability-detection-test-and-evaluation/p-5061.ashx

REF-1550

Secure PLC Coding Practices: Top 20 List
Secure PLC Programming project.
https://plc-security.com/

Pengajuan

Nama	Organisasi	Tanggal	Tanggal rilis	Version
Pascal Meunier	Purdue University	2008-01-18 +00:00	2008-01-30 +00:00	Draft 8

Modifikasi

Nama	Organisasi	Tanggal	Komentar
Eric Dalci	Cigital	2008-07-01 +00:00	updated Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2008-09-08 +00:00	updated Alternate_Terms, Common_Consequences, Description, Relationships, Other_Notes, Weakness_Ordinalities
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2009-01-12 +00:00	updated Name
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2010-12-13 +00:00	updated Other_Notes, Relationship_Notes, Terminology_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2011-06-01 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-05-11 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2012-10-30 +00:00	updated Potential_Mitigations
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2014-07-30 +00:00	updated Detection_Factors
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2017-11-08 +00:00	updated Applicable_Platforms, Causal_Nature, Modes_of_Introduction, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-02-24 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2020-12-10 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2021-10-28 +00:00	updated Description, Name, Observed_Examples, References, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2022-10-13 +00:00	updated References
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-04-27 +00:00	updated References, Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-06-29 +00:00	updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2023-10-26 +00:00	updated Demonstrative_Examples, Observed_Examples
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2024-02-29 +00:00	updated Type
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2025-09-09 +00:00	updated References
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2025-12-11 +00:00	updated Relationships
CWE Content Team	MITRE	2026-10-28 +00:00	updated Common_Consequences, Description, Dimensions, References, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings

Detail CWE-653

CWE-653