AUTH-017: Super Admin Account Self-Recovery
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Authentication & Access Controls
- Severity
- High
- Zero Trust pillar
- Identity (weight 3)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
Self-service account recovery for super admins is an account-takeover path via social engineering and should be turned off. Super admins should be recovered only by another administrator
Recommended value
Super admin self-recovery disabled in all organizational units
Remediation
Security > Authentication > Account recovery > Turn off 'Allow super admins to recover their account' for all organizational units
Fixture-proven verdicts
Every verdict below is proven by a golden fixture in the module's gating test suite. This table derives from the last green run; it cannot be edited by hand.
| Scenario | Expected verdict |
|---|---|
| clean | PASS |
| known-bad | FAIL |
| no-data | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- IA-4, AC-6(5)
- CIS Benchmark
- 1.15
- CISA SCuBA
- GWS.COMMONCONTROLS.8.1v1
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078.004, T1098