Render:

• Set a correct content type
• Set safe character set (UTF-8)
• Set correct locale

On Submit:

• Enforce input field type and lengths.
• Validate fields and provide feedback.
• Ensure option selects and radio contain only sent values.

Positive input validation using correct character set

(NR) Negative input validation. (LR) Sanitize input.

Tip: updating a negative list (such as looking for "script", "sCrIpT", "ßCrîpt", etc) will require expensive and constant deployments and will always fail as attackers work out your list of "bad" words. Positive validation is simpler, faster and usually more secure and needs updating far less than any other validation mechanism.

• Object relational model (Hibernate).
• Active Record design pattern.
• Stored procedures.

• Escape mechanisms such as ESAPI's Encoder:
  • EncodeForLDAP()
  • Encoder.EncodeforOS()

Tip: All SQL Injection is due to dynamic SQL queries. Strongly consider prohibiting dynamic SQL queries within your organization

4.8.6 LDAP Injection (OWASP-DV-006) 4.8.7 ORM Injection (OWASP-DV-007) 4.8.8 XML Injection (OWASP-DV-008) 4.8.9 SSI Injection (OWASP-DV-009) 4.8.10 XPath Injection (OWASP-DV-010) 4.8.11 IMAP/SMTP Injection (OWASP-DV-011) 4.8.12 Code Injection (OWASP-DV-012) 4.8.13 OS Commanding (OWASP-DV-013) 4.8.14 Buffer overflow (OWASP-DV-014)

Render:

• Set correct content type
• Set safe character set (UTF-8)
• Set correct locale
• Output encode all user data as per output context
• Set input constraints

On Submit:

• Enforce input field type and lengths.
• Validate fields and provide feedback.
• Ensure option selects and radio contain only sent values.

Positive input validation using correct character set

(NR) Negative input validation (LR) Sanitize input

Tip: Only process data that is 100% trustworthy. Everything else is hostile and should be rejected.

Tip: Use OWASP Scrubbr to clean tainted or hostile data from legacy data

4.8.2 Testing for Stored Cross Site Scripting (OWASP-DV-002) 4.8.3 Testing for DOM based Cross Site Scripting (OWASP-DV-003) 4.8.4 Testing for Cross Site Flashing (OWASP-DV004)

• Validate user is authenticated.
• Validate role is sufficient for this view.
• Set "secure" and "HttpOnly" flags for session cookies.
• Send CSRF token with forms.

• Only use inbuilt session management.
• Store secondary SSO / framework / custom session identifiers in native session object – do not send as additional headers or cookies.

• Validate user is authenticated.
• Validate role is sufficient to perform this action.
• Validate CSRF token.

Tip: Consider the use of a "governor" to regulate the maximum number of requests per second / minute / hour that this user may perform. For example, a typical banking user should not perform more than ten transactions a minute, and one hundred per second is dangerous and should be blocked.

4.4.3 Testing for Guessable (Dictionary) User Account (OWASP-AT-003) 4.4.4 Brute Force Testing (OWASP-AT-004) 4.4.6 Testing for vulnerable remember password and pwd reset (OWASP-AT-006) 4.4.5 Testing for bypassing authentication schema (OWASP-AT-005) 4.4.7 Testing for Logout and Browser Cache Management (OWASP-AT-007) 4.4.8 Testing for CAPTCHA (OWASP-AT-008) 4.4.9 Testing Multiple Factors Authentication (OWASP-AT-009) 4.4.10 Testing for Race Conditions (OWASP-AT-010) 4.5.1 Testing for Session Management Schema (OWASP-SM-001) 4.5.2 Testing for Cookies attributes (OWASP-SM-002) 4.5.3 Testing for Session Fixation (OWASP-SM_003) 4.5.4 Testing for Exposed Session Variables (OWASP-SM-004) 4.5.5 Testing for CSRF (OWASP-SM-005) 4.6.2 Testing for bypassing authorization schema (OWASP-AZ-002) 4.6.3 Testing for Privilege Escalation (OWASP-AZ-003)

Or

Render:

• Send indirect random access reference map value.

Or

Obtain direct value from random access reference access map.

• Validate user is authenticated
• Validate role is sufficient for this view

Render:

• Send CSRF token.
• Set "secure" and "HttpOnly" flags for session cookies.

• Validate CSRF token.
• Validate role is sufficient to perform this action.
• Validate role is sufficient.

Tip: CSRF is always possible if there is XSS, so make sure XSS is eliminated within your application.

PHP: Ensure allow_url_fopen and allow_url_include are both disabled in php.ini. Consider the use of Suhosin extension

XML: Ensure common web attacks (remote XSLT transforms, hostile XPath queries, recursive DTDs, and so on) are protected by your XML stack. Do not hand craft XML documents or queries – use the XML layer.

4.3.2 DB Listener Testing (OWASP-CM-002) 4.3.3 Infrastructure Configuration Management Testing (OWASP-CM-003) 4.3.4 Application Configuration Management Testing (OWASP-CM-004) 4.3.5 Testing for File Extensions Handling (OWASP-CM-005) 4.3.6 Old, Backup and Unreferenced Files (OWASP-CM-006) 4.3.7 Infrastructure and Application Admin Interfaces (OWASP-CM-007) 4.3.8 Testing for HTTP Methods and XST (OWASP-CM-008)

• Use strong ciphers (AES 128 or better).
• Use strong hashes (SHA 256 or better) with salts for passwords.
• Protect keys more than any other asset.

Render:

• Do not send keys or hashes to the browser.

• Use strong ciphers (AES 128 or better).
• Use strong hashes (SHA 256 or better) with salts for passwords.
• Protect keys more than any other asset.

Tip: Only certain personally identifiable information and sensitive values MUST be encrypted. Encrypt data that would be embarrassing or costly if it was leaked or stolen.

Tip: It is best to encrypt data on the application server, rather than the database server.

Tip: Do not use RDBMS database, row or table level encryption. The data can be retrieved in the clear by anyone with direct access to the server, or over the network using the application credentials. It might even traverse the network in the clear despite being "encrypted" on disk.

• Ensure all non-web data is outside the web root (logs, configuration, etc).
• Use octet byte streaming instead of providing access to real files such as PDFs or CSVs or similar.
• Ensure every page requires a role, even if it is "guest".

Pre-render:

• Validate user is authenticated.
• Validate role is sufficient to view secured URL.

Render:

• Send CSRF token.

• Validate user is authenticated.
• Validate role is sufficient to perform secured action.
• Validate CSRF token.

Tip: It's impossible to control access to secured resources that the web application server does not directly serve. Therefore, PDF reports or similar should be served by the web application server using binary octet streaming.

Tip: Assume attackers will learn where "hidden" directories and "random" filenames are, so do not store these files in the web root, even if they are not directly linked.

4.6.1 Testing for Path Traversal (OWASP-AZ-001) 4.6.2 Testing for bypassing authorization schema (OWASP-AZ-002)

• Use TLS 1.2 or later for all web communications.
• Buy extended validation (EV) certificates for public web servers.

Tip: Use TLS 1.2 always – even internally. Most snooping is done within corporate networks – and it is as easy and unethical as fishing with dynamite.

• Mandate strong encrypted communications between web and database servers and any other servers or administrative users.

• Mandate strong encrypted communications with application servers and any other servers or administrative users.

4.4.1 Credentials transport over an encrypted channel (OWASP-AT-001)

• Design the app without URL redirection parameters.

or

Render:

• Use random indirect object references for redirection parameters.

• Design the app without URL redirection parameters.

or

• Obtain direct redirection parameter from random indirect reference access map.
• (LR) Positive validation of redirection parameter.
• (NR) Java – Do not forward() requests as this prevents SSO access control mechanisms.

• Validate role is sufficient to create, read, update, or delete data.