Top 10 2014-I3 Insecure Network Services

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Threat Agents	Attack Vectors	Security Weakness		Technical Impacts	Business Impacts
Application Specific	Exploitability EASY	Prevalence COMMON	Detectability AVERAGE	Impact SEVERE	Application / Business Specific
Consider anyone who has access to the device via a network connection, including external and internal users.	Attacker uses vulnerable network services to attack the device itself or bounce attacks off the device. Depending on setup, attack could come from external or internal users.	Insecure network services may be susceptible to buffer overflow attacks or attacks that created a denial of service condition leaving the device inaccessible to the user. Denial of service attacks against other users may also be facilitated when insecure network services are available. Insufficient authentication/authorization is prevalent as manufacturers strive to make interfaces easier for users to use and assume these interfaces will not be exposed to external users. Deficiencies are often found to be present across all interfaces as vendors strive to make credentials match across varying interfaces. Many Issues with authentication/authorization are easy to discover when examining the interface manually and frequently easy to discover via automated testing.		Insufficient authentication/authorization can result in data loss or corruption, lack of accountability, or denial of access and can lead to complete compromise of the device or user accounts.	Consider the business impact of compromised devices and accounts and in turn compromised customers. All data could be stolen, modified, or deleted. Could your users be harmed?

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Example Attack Scenarios Scenario #1: The interface only requires simple passwords. Example Scenario #2: Username and password are poorly protected when transmitted over the network. Example In the cases above, the attacker is able to either easily guess the password or is able to capture the credentials as they cross the network and decode it since the credentials are only protected using Base64 Encoding.

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