V-237390

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. CA API Gateways 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 Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) or database application gateways. The CA API Gateway must include threat protection mechanisms such as a "Protect Against Code Injection" Assertion configured in accordance with organizational requirements and used in a Registered Service's policy requiring data mining protection to help detect code injection attacks launched against application objects.

Check Content

Open the CA API Gateway - Policy Manager. 

Double-click all Registered Services that access a protected database and verify the "Protect Against SQL Attacks" and "Protect Against Code Injection" Threat Protection Assertions are included as part of the policies.

If they are not included, this is a finding.