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OWASP, or Open Web Application Security Project, is a framework that outlines critical security risks to web applications. Key vulnerabilities include injection flaws, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, and security misconfiguration, among others. The document highlights the importance of proper security measures to protect against these vulnerabilities and the consequences of inadequate logging and monitoring.

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Revision of OWASP

OWASP, or Open Web Application Security Project, is a framework that outlines critical security risks to web applications. Key vulnerabilities include injection flaws, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, and security misconfiguration, among others. The document highlights the importance of proper security measures to protect against these vulnerabilities and the consequences of inadequate logging and monitoring.

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What is OWASP?

OWASP stands for Open Web Application Security Project which is a standard
awareness document for developers and web application security. It represents a
broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications. It
categorizes vulnerability of each type

OWASP 2013 v/s OWASP 2017


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What is Injection?
Injection flaws, such as SQL occur when untrusted data is sent to a web application
as part of a command or query. The attacker’s payload can trick the web application
into executing unintended commands or accessing data without proper authorization.

What is Broken Authentication?


Application functions related to authentication and session management are often
implemented incorrectly, allowing attackers to compromise passwords, keys, or
session tokens, or to exploit other implementation flaws to assume other users’
identities temporarily or permanently.

What is Sensitive Data Exposure?


When web applications and APIs do not properly protect sensitive data, such as
financial, healthcare, and PII. Attackers may steal or modify such weakly protected
data to conduct credit card fraud, identity theft, or other crimes.

What are XML External Entities?


Many older or poorly configured XML processors evaluate external entity references
within XML documents. External entities can be used to disclose internal files
using the file URI handler, internal file shares, internal port scanning, remote
code execution, and denial of service attacks.

What is Broken Access Control?


Restrictions on what authenticated users are allowed to do are often not properly
enforced. Attackers can exploit these flaws to access unauthorized functionality
and/or data, such as access other users’ accounts, view sensitive files, modify
other users’ data, change access rights, etc.

What is Security Misconfiguration?


Security misconfiguration is the most commonly seen issue. This is commonly a
result of insecure default configurations, incomplete or ad hoc configurations,
open cloud storage, misconfigured HTTP headers, and verbose error messages
containing sensitive information. Not only must all operating systems, frameworks,
libraries, and applications be securely configured, but they must be
patched/upgraded in a timely fashion.
What is Cross Site Scripting?
XSS flaws occur whenever an application includes untrusted data in a new web page
without proper validation or escaping, or updates an existing web page with user-
supplied data using a browser API that can create HTML or JavaScript. XSS allows
attackers to execute scripts in the victim’s browser which can hijack user
sessions, deface web sites, or redirect the user to malicious sites.

What is Insecure Deserialization?


Insecure deserialization often leads to remote code execution. Even if
deserialization flaws do not result in remote code execution, they can be used to
perform attacks, including replay attacks, injection attacks, and privilege
escalation attacks.

What is Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities?


Components, such as libraries, frameworks, and other software modules, run with the
same privileges as the application. If a vulnerable component is exploited, such an
attack can facilitate serious data loss or server takeover. Applications and APIs
using components with known vulnerabilities may undermine application defenses and
enable various attacks and impacts.

What is Insufficient Logging and Monitoring?


Insufficient logging and monitoring, coupled with missing or ineffective
integration with incident response, allows attackers to further attack systems,
maintain persistence, pivot to more systems, and tamper, extract, or destroy data.
Most breach studies show time to detect a breach is over 200 days, typically
detected by external parties rather than internal processes or monitoring.

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Rohit Gautam & Shifa Cyclewala

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