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Revision as of 00:33, 12 December 2017
Threat Agents / Attack Vectors | Security Weakness | Impacts | |||
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App Specific | Exploitability DIFFICULT |
Prevalence UNCOMMON |
Detectability AVERAGE |
Impact SEVERE |
Business ? |
Consider who can gain access to your sensitive data and any backups of that data. This includes the data at rest, in transit and even in your customers’ browsers. Include both external and internal threats. |
Attackers typically don’t break crypto directly. They break something else, such as steal keys, do man-in-the-middle attacks, or steal clear text data off the server, while in transit, or from the user’s browser. |
The most common flaw is simply not encrypting sensitive data. When crypto is employed, weak key generation and management, and weak algorithm usage is common, particularly weak password hashing techniques. Browser weaknesses are very common and easy to detect, but hard to exploit on a large scale. External attackers have difficulty detecting server side flaws due to limited access and they are also usually hard to exploit. |
Failure frequently compromises all data that should have been protected. Typically, this information includes sensitive data such as health records, credentials, personal data, credit cards, etc. |
Consider the business value of the lost data and impact to your reputation. What is your legal liability if this data is exposed? Also consider the damage to your reputation. |
Am I Vulnerable To 'Security Misconfiguration'?
The first thing you have to determine is which data is sensitive enough to require extra protection. For example, passwords, credit card numbers, health records, and personal information should be protected. For all such data:
And more ... For a more complete set of problems to avoid, see ASVS areas Crypto (V7), Data Prot (V9), and SSL/TLS (V10). |
How Do I Prevent 'Security Misconfiguration'?
The full perils of unsafe cryptography, SSL/TLS usage, and data protection are well beyond the scope of the Top 10. That said, for all sensitive data, do the following, at a minimum:
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Example Attack Scenarios
Scenario #1: An application encrypts credit card numbers in a database using automatic database encryption. However, this data is automatically decrypted when retrieved, allowing an SQL injection flaw to retrieve credit card numbers in clear text. Alternatives include not storing credit card numbers, using tokenization, or using public key encryption. Scenario #2: A site simply doesn’t use TLS for all authenticated pages. An attacker simply monitors network traffic (like an open wireless network), and steals the user’s session cookie. The attacker then replays this cookie and hijacks the user’s session, accessing the user’s private data. Scenario #3: The password database uses unsalted hashes to store everyone’s passwords. A file upload flaw allows an attacker to retrieve the password database. All of the unsalted hashes can be exposed with a rainbow table of precalculated hashes. |
References
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