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V-204985

CAT II (Medium)

To protect against data mining, the ALG providing content filtering as part of its intermediary services must detect code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.

Rule ID

SV-204985r831362_rule

STIG

Application Layer Gateway Security Requirements Guide

Version

V2R3

CCIs

CCI-002347

Discussion

Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks launched against organizational applications may result in the compromise of information. Injection attacks allow an attacker to inject code into a program or query or inject malware onto a computer to execute remote commands that can read or modify a database, or change data on a website. These attacks include buffer overrun, XML, JavaScript, and HTML injections. ALGs with anomaly detection must be configured to protect against unauthorized code injections. These devices must include rules and anomaly detection algorithms to monitor for atypical database queries or accesses. Examples include a Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) or database application gateways.

Check Content

If the ALG does not perform content filtering as part of the traffic management functions, this is not applicable.

Verify the ALG detects code injection attacks from being launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.

If the ALG does not detect code injection attacks from being launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code, this is a finding.

Fix Text

If the ALG performs content filtering as part of the traffic management functionality, configure the ALG to detect code injection attacks from being launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.