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Revision as of 07:34, 27 January 2014
| Threat Agents | Attack Vectors | Security Weakness | Technical Impacts | Business Impacts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Specific | Exploitability EASY |
Prevalence COMMON |
Detectability EASY |
Impact SEVERE |
Application / Business Specific |
| Threat Description | Attack Vector Description | Security Weakness Description | Technical Impacts | Business Impacts | |
Unintended data leakage (formerly side-channel data leakage) is a branch of Insecure Data Storage. It includes all manner of vulnerabilities that can be introduced by the OS, frameworks, compiler environment, new hardware, etc, all without a developers knowledge.
In the mobile development world this is most seen in undocumented (or under-documeted) internal processes such as:
- The way the OS caches data, images, key-presses, logging, and buffers.
- The way the development framework caches data, images, key-presses, logging, and buffers.
- The way or amount of data ad, analytic, social, or enablement frameworks cache data, images, key-presses, logging, and buffers.
It is important to threat model your OS, platforms, and frameworks, to see how they handle the following types of features:
- URL Caching (Both request and response)
- Keyboard Press Caching
- Copy/Paste buffer Caching
- Application backgrounding
- Logging
- HTML5 data storage
- Browser cookie objects
- Analytics data sent to 3rd parties
It is especially important to discern what a given OS or framework does by default. By identifying this and applying mitigating controls, you can avoid unintended data leakage. Specific examples to follow.
OS: iOS
- URL Caching (Both request and response)
- Keyboard Press Caching
- Copy/Paste buffer Caching
- Application backgrounding
- Logging
- HTML5 data storage
- Browser cookie objects
- Analytics data sent to 3rd parties
OS: Android
- URL Caching (Both request and response)
- Keyboard Press Caching
- Copy/Paste buffer Caching
- Application backgrounding
- Logging
- HTML5 data storage
- Browser cookie objects
- Analytics data sent to 3rd parties
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