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| − | + | #Dedication | |
| − | + | #Copyright and license | |
| − | + | #Editors | |
| − | + | #Authors and Reviewers | |
| − | + | #Revision History | |
=[[About The Open Web Application Security Project]]= | =[[About The Open Web Application Security Project]]= | ||
| − | + | #Structure and Licensing | |
| − | + | #Participation and Membership | |
| − | + | #Projects | |
=[[Guide Introduction | Introduction]]= | =[[Guide Introduction | Introduction]]= | ||
| − | + | #Developing Secure Applications | |
| − | + | #Improvements in this edition | |
| − | + | #How to use this Guide | |
| − | + | #Updates and errata | |
| − | + | #With thanks | |
| − | + | =[[What are web applications?]]= | |
| − | + | #Technologies | |
| − | + | #First generation – CGI | |
| − | + | #Filters | |
| − | + | #Scripting | |
| − | + | #Web application frameworks – J | |
| − | + | #Small to medium scale applications | |
| − | + | #Large scale applications | |
| − | + | #View | |
| − | + | #Controller | |
| − | + | #Model | |
| − | + | #Conclusion | |
| − | + | =[[Policy Frameworks]]= | |
| − | + | #Organizational commitment to security | |
| − | + | #OWASP’s Place at the Framework table | |
| − | + | #Development Methodology | |
| − | + | #Coding Standards | |
| − | + | #Source Code Control | |
| − | + | #Summary | |
| − | + | =[[Secure Coding Principles]]= | |
| − | + | #Asset Classification | |
| − | + | #About attackers | |
| − | + | #Core pillars of information security | |
| − | + | #Security Architecture | |
| − | + | #Security Principles | |
| − | + | =[[Threat Risk Modeling]]= | |
| − | + | #Threat Risk Modeling | |
| − | + | #Performing threat risk modeling using the Microsoft Threat Modeling Process | |
| − | + | #Alternative Threat Modeling Systems | |
| − | + | #Trike | |
| − | + | #AS/NZS | |
| − | + | #CVSS | |
| − | + | #OCTAVE | |
| − | + | #Conclusion | |
| − | + | #Further Reading | |
| − | + | =[[Handling E-Commerce Payments]]= | |
| − | + | #Objectives | |
| − | + | #Compliance and Laws | |
| − | + | #PCI Compliance | |
| − | + | #Handling Credit Cards | |
| − | + | #Further Reading | |
| − | + | =[[Phishing]]= | |
| − | + | #What is phishing? | |
| − | + | #User Education | |
| − | + | #Make it easy for your users to report scams | |
| − | + | #Communicating with customers via e-mail | |
| − | + | #Never ask your customers for their secrets | |
| − | + | #Fix all your XSS issues | |
| − | + | #Do not use pop-ups | |
| − | + | #Don’t be framed | |
| − | + | #Move your application one link away from your front page | |
| − | + | #Enforce local referrers for images and other resources | |
| − | + | #Keep the address bar, use SSL, do not use IP addresses | |
| − | + | #Don’t be the source of identity theft | |
| − | + | #Implement safe-guards within your application | |
| − | + | #Monitor unusual account activity | |
| − | + | #Get the phishing target servers offline pronto | |
| − | + | #Take control of the fraudulent domain name | |
| − | + | #Work with law enforcement | |
| − | + | #When an attack happens | |
| − | + | #Further Reading | |
| − | + | =[[Web Services]]= | |
| − | + | #Securing Web Services | |
| − | + | #Communication security | |
| − | + | #Passing credentials | |
| − | + | #Ensuring message freshness | |
| − | + | #Protecting message integrity | |
| − | + | #Protecting message confidentiality | |
| − | + | #Access control | |
| − | + | #Audit | |
| − | + | #Web Services Security Hierarchy | |
| − | + | #SOAP | |
| − | + | #WS-Security Standard | |
| − | + | #WS-Security Building Blocks | |
| − | + | #Communication Protection Mechanisms | |
| − | + | #Access Control Mechanisms | |
| − | + | #Forming Web Service Chains | |
| − | + | #Available Implementations | |
| − | + | #Problems | |
| − | + | #Further Reading | |
| − | + | =[[Ajax and Other "Rich" Interface Technologies]]= | |
| − | + | #Objective | |
| − | + | #Platforms Affected | |
| − | + | #Architecture | |
| − | + | #Access control: Authentication and Authorization | |
| − | + | #Silent transactional authorization | |
| − | + | #Untrusted or absent session data | |
| − | + | #State management | |
| − | + | #Tamper resistance | |
| − | + | #Privacy | |
| − | + | #Proxy Façade | |
| − | + | #SOAP Injection Attacks | |
| − | + | #XMLRPC Injection Attacks | |
| − | + | #DOM Injection Attacks | |
| − | + | #XML Injection Attacks | |
| − | + | #JSON (Javascript Object Notation) Injection Attacks | |
| − | + | #Encoding safety | |
| − | + | #Auditing | |
| − | + | #Error Handling | |
| − | + | #Accessibility | |
| − | + | #Further Reading | |
| − | + | =[[Guide to Authentication]]= | |
| − | + | #Objective | |
| − | + | #Environments Affected | |
| − | + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | |
| − | + | #Best Practices | |
| − | + | #Common web authentication techniques | |
| − | + | #Strong Authentication | |
| − | + | #Federated Authentication | |
| − | + | #Client side authentication controls | |
| − | + | #Positive Authentication | |
| − | + | #Multiple Key Lookups | |
| − | + | #Referer Checks | |
| − | + | #Browser remembers passwords | |
| − | + | #Default accounts | |
| − | + | #Choice of usernames | |
| − | + | #Change passwords | |
| − | + | #Short passwords | |
| − | + | #Weak password controls | |
| − | + | #Reversible password encryption | |
| − | + | #Automated password resets | |
| − | + | #Brute Force | |
| − | + | #Remember Me | |
| − | + | #Idle Timeouts | |
| − | + | #Logout | |
| − | + | #Account Expiry | |
| − | + | #Self registration | |
| − | + | #CAPTCHA | |
| − | + | #Further Reading | |
| − | + | #Authentication | |
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| − | [[Category | + | =[[Guide to Authorization]]= |
| + | #Objectives | ||
| + | #Environments Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Best Practices | ||
| + | #Best Practices in Action | ||
| + | #Principle of least privilege | ||
| + | #Centralized authorization routines | ||
| + | #Authorization matrix | ||
| + | #Controlling access to protected resources | ||
| + | #Protecting access to static resources | ||
| + | #Reauthorization for high value activities or after idle out | ||
| + | #Time based authorization | ||
| + | #Be cautious of custom authorization controls | ||
| + | #Never implement client-side authorization tokens | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | |||
| + | =[[Session Management]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Environments Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Description | ||
| + | #Best practices | ||
| + | #Exposed Session Variables | ||
| + | #Page and Form Tokens | ||
| + | #Weak Session Cryptographic Algorithms | ||
| + | #Session Token Entropy | ||
| + | #Session Time-out | ||
| + | #Regeneration of Session Tokens | ||
| + | #Session Forging/Brute-Forcing Detection and/or Lockout | ||
| + | #Session Token Capture and Session Hijacking | ||
| + | #Session Tokens on Logout | ||
| + | #Session Validation Attacks | ||
| + | #PHP | ||
| + | #Sessions | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | #Session Management | ||
| + | =[[Data Validation]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Platforms Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Description | ||
| + | #Definitions | ||
| + | #Where to include integrity checks | ||
| + | #Where to include validation | ||
| + | #Where to include business rule validation | ||
| + | #Data Validation Strategies | ||
| + | #Prevent parameter tampering | ||
| + | #Hidden fields | ||
| + | #ASP.NET Viewstate | ||
| + | #URL encoding | ||
| + | #HTML encoding | ||
| + | #Encoded strings | ||
| + | #Data Validation and Interpreter Injection | ||
| + | #Delimiter and special characters | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | =[[Interpreter Injection]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Platforms Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #User Agent Injection | ||
| + | #HTTP Response Splitting | ||
| + | #SQL Injection | ||
| + | #ORM Injection | ||
| + | #LDAP Injection | ||
| + | #XML Injection | ||
| + | #Code Injection | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | #SQL-injection | ||
| + | #Code Injection | ||
| + | #Command injection | ||
| + | =[[Canonicalization, locale and Unicode]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Platforms Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Description | ||
| + | #Unicode | ||
| + | #http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc# | ||
| + | #Input Formats | ||
| + | #Locale assertion | ||
| + | #Double (or n-) encoding | ||
| + | # HTTP Request Smuggling | ||
| + | # Further Reading | ||
| + | |||
| + | =[[Error Handling, Auditing and Logging]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Environments Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Description | ||
| + | #Best practices | ||
| + | #Error Handling | ||
| + | #Detailed error messages | ||
| + | #Logging | ||
| + | #Noise | ||
| + | #Cover Tracks | ||
| + | #False Alarms | ||
| + | #Destruction | ||
| + | #Audit Trails | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | #Error Handling and Logging | ||
| + | =[[File System]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Environments Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Description | ||
| + | #Best Practices | ||
| + | #Defacement | ||
| + | #Path traversal | ||
| + | #Insecure permissions | ||
| + | #Insecure Indexing | ||
| + | #Unmapped files | ||
| + | #Temporary files | ||
| + | #PHP | ||
| + | #Includes and Remote files | ||
| + | #File upload | ||
| + | #Old, unreferenced files | ||
| + | #Second Order Injection | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | #File System | ||
| + | =[[Distributed Computing]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Environments Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Best Practices | ||
| + | #Race conditions | ||
| + | #Distributed synchronization | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | =[[Buffer Overflows]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Platforms Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Description | ||
| + | #General Prevention Techniques | ||
| + | #Stack Overflow | ||
| + | #Heap Overflow | ||
| + | #Format String | ||
| + | #Unicode Overflow | ||
| + | #Integer Overflow | ||
| + | #Further reading | ||
| + | =[[Administrative Interface]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Environments Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Best practices | ||
| + | #Administrators are not users | ||
| + | #Authentication for high value systems | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | =[[Guide to Cryptography]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Platforms Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Description | ||
| + | #Cryptographic Functions | ||
| + | #Cryptographic Algorithms | ||
| + | #Algorithm Selection | ||
| + | #Key Storage | ||
| + | #Insecure transmission of secrets | ||
| + | #Reversible Authentication Tokens | ||
| + | #Safe UUID generation | ||
| + | #Summary | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | #Cryptography | ||
| + | |||
| + | =[[Configuration]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Platforms Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Best Practices | ||
| + | #Default passwords | ||
| + | #Secure connection strings | ||
| + | #Secure network transmission | ||
| + | #Encrypted data | ||
| + | #PHP Configuration | ||
| + | #Global variables | ||
| + | #register_globals | ||
| + | #Database security | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | #ColdFusion Components (CFCs) | ||
| + | #Configuration | ||
| + | =[[Software Quality Assurance]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Platforms Affected | ||
| + | #Best practices | ||
| + | #Process | ||
| + | #Metrics | ||
| + | #Testing Activities | ||
| + | =[[Deployment]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Platforms Affected | ||
| + | #Best Practices | ||
| + | #Release Management | ||
| + | #Secure delivery of code | ||
| + | #Code signing | ||
| + | #Permissions are set to least privilege | ||
| + | #Automated packaging | ||
| + | #Automated deployment | ||
| + | #Automated removal | ||
| + | #No backup or old files | ||
| + | #Unnecessary features are off by default | ||
| + | #Setup log files are clean | ||
| + | #No default accounts | ||
| + | #Easter eggs | ||
| + | #Malicious software | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | =[[Maintenance]]= | ||
| + | #Objective | ||
| + | #Platforms Affected | ||
| + | #Relevant COBIT Topics | ||
| + | #Best Practices | ||
| + | #Security Incident Response | ||
| + | #Fix Security Issues Correctly | ||
| + | #Update Notifications | ||
| + | #Regularly check permissions | ||
| + | #Further Reading | ||
| + | #Maintenance | ||
| + | =[[GNU Free Documentation License]]= | ||
| + | #PREAMBLE | ||
| + | #APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS | ||
| + | #VERBATIM COPYING | ||
| + | #COPYING IN QUANTITY | ||
| + | #MODIFICATIONS | ||
| + | #COMBINING DOCUMENTS | ||
| + | #COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS | ||
| + | #AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS | ||
| + | #TRANSLATION | ||
| + | #TERMINATION | ||
| + | #FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE | ||
| + | =Reference= | ||
| + | [[Category:OWASP_Guide_Project]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:42, 26 January 2007
- 1 Frontispiece
- 2 About The Open Web Application Security Project
- 3 Introduction
- 4 What are web applications?
- 5 Policy Frameworks
- 6 Secure Coding Principles
- 7 Threat Risk Modeling
- 8 Handling E-Commerce Payments
- 9 Phishing
- 10 Web Services
- 11 Ajax and Other "Rich" Interface Technologies
- 12 Guide to Authentication
- 13 Guide to Authorization
- 14 Session Management
- 15 Data Validation
- 16 Interpreter Injection
- 17 Canonicalization, locale and Unicode
- 18 Error Handling, Auditing and Logging
- 19 File System
- 20 Distributed Computing
- 21 Buffer Overflows
- 22 Administrative Interface
- 23 Guide to Cryptography
- 24 Configuration
- 25 Software Quality Assurance
- 26 Deployment
- 27 Maintenance
- 28 GNU Free Documentation License
- 29 Reference
Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Copyright and license
- Editors
- Authors and Reviewers
- Revision History
About The Open Web Application Security Project
- Structure and Licensing
- Participation and Membership
- Projects
Introduction
- Developing Secure Applications
- Improvements in this edition
- How to use this Guide
- Updates and errata
- With thanks
What are web applications?
- Technologies
- First generation – CGI
- Filters
- Scripting
- Web application frameworks – J
- Small to medium scale applications
- Large scale applications
- View
- Controller
- Model
- Conclusion
Policy Frameworks
- Organizational commitment to security
- OWASP’s Place at the Framework table
- Development Methodology
- Coding Standards
- Source Code Control
- Summary
Secure Coding Principles
- Asset Classification
- About attackers
- Core pillars of information security
- Security Architecture
- Security Principles
Threat Risk Modeling
- Threat Risk Modeling
- Performing threat risk modeling using the Microsoft Threat Modeling Process
- Alternative Threat Modeling Systems
- Trike
- AS/NZS
- CVSS
- OCTAVE
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
Handling E-Commerce Payments
- Objectives
- Compliance and Laws
- PCI Compliance
- Handling Credit Cards
- Further Reading
Phishing
- What is phishing?
- User Education
- Make it easy for your users to report scams
- Communicating with customers via e-mail
- Never ask your customers for their secrets
- Fix all your XSS issues
- Do not use pop-ups
- Don’t be framed
- Move your application one link away from your front page
- Enforce local referrers for images and other resources
- Keep the address bar, use SSL, do not use IP addresses
- Don’t be the source of identity theft
- Implement safe-guards within your application
- Monitor unusual account activity
- Get the phishing target servers offline pronto
- Take control of the fraudulent domain name
- Work with law enforcement
- When an attack happens
- Further Reading
Web Services
- Securing Web Services
- Communication security
- Passing credentials
- Ensuring message freshness
- Protecting message integrity
- Protecting message confidentiality
- Access control
- Audit
- Web Services Security Hierarchy
- SOAP
- WS-Security Standard
- WS-Security Building Blocks
- Communication Protection Mechanisms
- Access Control Mechanisms
- Forming Web Service Chains
- Available Implementations
- Problems
- Further Reading
Ajax and Other "Rich" Interface Technologies
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Architecture
- Access control: Authentication and Authorization
- Silent transactional authorization
- Untrusted or absent session data
- State management
- Tamper resistance
- Privacy
- Proxy Façade
- SOAP Injection Attacks
- XMLRPC Injection Attacks
- DOM Injection Attacks
- XML Injection Attacks
- JSON (Javascript Object Notation) Injection Attacks
- Encoding safety
- Auditing
- Error Handling
- Accessibility
- Further Reading
Guide to Authentication
- Objective
- Environments Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Best Practices
- Common web authentication techniques
- Strong Authentication
- Federated Authentication
- Client side authentication controls
- Positive Authentication
- Multiple Key Lookups
- Referer Checks
- Browser remembers passwords
- Default accounts
- Choice of usernames
- Change passwords
- Short passwords
- Weak password controls
- Reversible password encryption
- Automated password resets
- Brute Force
- Remember Me
- Idle Timeouts
- Logout
- Account Expiry
- Self registration
- CAPTCHA
- Further Reading
- Authentication
Guide to Authorization
- Objectives
- Environments Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Best Practices
- Best Practices in Action
- Principle of least privilege
- Centralized authorization routines
- Authorization matrix
- Controlling access to protected resources
- Protecting access to static resources
- Reauthorization for high value activities or after idle out
- Time based authorization
- Be cautious of custom authorization controls
- Never implement client-side authorization tokens
- Further Reading
Session Management
- Objective
- Environments Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Description
- Best practices
- Exposed Session Variables
- Page and Form Tokens
- Weak Session Cryptographic Algorithms
- Session Token Entropy
- Session Time-out
- Regeneration of Session Tokens
- Session Forging/Brute-Forcing Detection and/or Lockout
- Session Token Capture and Session Hijacking
- Session Tokens on Logout
- Session Validation Attacks
- PHP
- Sessions
- Further Reading
- Session Management
Data Validation
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Description
- Definitions
- Where to include integrity checks
- Where to include validation
- Where to include business rule validation
- Data Validation Strategies
- Prevent parameter tampering
- Hidden fields
- ASP.NET Viewstate
- URL encoding
- HTML encoding
- Encoded strings
- Data Validation and Interpreter Injection
- Delimiter and special characters
- Further Reading
Interpreter Injection
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- User Agent Injection
- HTTP Response Splitting
- SQL Injection
- ORM Injection
- LDAP Injection
- XML Injection
- Code Injection
- Further Reading
- SQL-injection
- Code Injection
- Command injection
Canonicalization, locale and Unicode
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Description
- Unicode
- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc#
- Input Formats
- Locale assertion
- Double (or n-) encoding
- HTTP Request Smuggling
- Further Reading
Error Handling, Auditing and Logging
- Objective
- Environments Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Description
- Best practices
- Error Handling
- Detailed error messages
- Logging
- Noise
- Cover Tracks
- False Alarms
- Destruction
- Audit Trails
- Further Reading
- Error Handling and Logging
File System
- Objective
- Environments Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Description
- Best Practices
- Defacement
- Path traversal
- Insecure permissions
- Insecure Indexing
- Unmapped files
- Temporary files
- PHP
- Includes and Remote files
- File upload
- Old, unreferenced files
- Second Order Injection
- Further Reading
- File System
Distributed Computing
- Objective
- Environments Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Best Practices
- Race conditions
- Distributed synchronization
- Further Reading
Buffer Overflows
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Description
- General Prevention Techniques
- Stack Overflow
- Heap Overflow
- Format String
- Unicode Overflow
- Integer Overflow
- Further reading
Administrative Interface
- Objective
- Environments Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Best practices
- Administrators are not users
- Authentication for high value systems
- Further Reading
Guide to Cryptography
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Description
- Cryptographic Functions
- Cryptographic Algorithms
- Algorithm Selection
- Key Storage
- Insecure transmission of secrets
- Reversible Authentication Tokens
- Safe UUID generation
- Summary
- Further Reading
- Cryptography
Configuration
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Best Practices
- Default passwords
- Secure connection strings
- Secure network transmission
- Encrypted data
- PHP Configuration
- Global variables
- register_globals
- Database security
- Further Reading
- ColdFusion Components (CFCs)
- Configuration
Software Quality Assurance
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Best practices
- Process
- Metrics
- Testing Activities
Deployment
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Best Practices
- Release Management
- Secure delivery of code
- Code signing
- Permissions are set to least privilege
- Automated packaging
- Automated deployment
- Automated removal
- No backup or old files
- Unnecessary features are off by default
- Setup log files are clean
- No default accounts
- Easter eggs
- Malicious software
- Further Reading
Maintenance
- Objective
- Platforms Affected
- Relevant COBIT Topics
- Best Practices
- Security Incident Response
- Fix Security Issues Correctly
- Update Notifications
- Regularly check permissions
- Further Reading
- Maintenance
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