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V-206896

CAT II (Medium)

To protect against unauthorized data mining, the IPS must prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.

Rule ID

SV-206896r1137749_rule

STIG

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems Security Requirements Guide

Version

V3R4

CCIs

CCI-002346

Discussion

Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks that use unauthorized data mining techniques to attack 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. IPS component(s) with the capability to prevent code injections must be included in the IPS implementation to protect against unauthorized data mining. These components must include rules and anomaly detection algorithms to monitor for atypical database queries or accesses.

Check Content

If the device being reviewed is an IDS, this is not applicable.

Verify the IPS prevents code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.

If the IPS does not prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the IPS to prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.