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CWE-1357: Reliance on Insufficiently Trustworthy Component

Class Incomplete

The product is built from multiple separate components, but it uses a component that is not sufficiently trusted to meet expectations for security, reliability, updateability, and maintainability.

How to prevent it (3 mitigations)

  1. Requirements, Architecture and Design, Implementation

    Regardless of the source, each component should be sufficiently trusted to ensure correct, secure operation of the product.

    For each component, ensure that its supply chain is well-controlled with sub-tier suppliers using best practices. For third-party software components such as libraries, ensure that they are developed and actively maintained by reputable vendors.

  2. Architecture and Design, Implementation, Integration, Manufacturing

    Maintain a Bill of Materials for all components and sub-components of the product. For software, maintain a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). According to [REF-1247], "An SBOM is a formal, machine-readable inventory of software components and dependencies, information about those components, and their hierarchical relationships."

  3. Operation, Patching and Maintenance

    Continue to monitor changes in each of the product's components, especially when the changes indicate new vulnerabilities, end-of-life (EOL) plans, supplier practices that affect trustworthiness, etc.

Source: MITRE CWE-1357

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