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Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The application development team must follow a set of coding standards.

    <VulnDiscussion>Coding standards are guidelines established by the development team or individual developers that recommend programming style...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The designer must create and update the Design Document for each release of the application.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This requirement is meant to apply to developers or organizations that are doing application development work. The applicati...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • Threat models must be documented and reviewed for each application release and updated as required by design and functionality changes or when new threats are discovered.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Threat modeling is an approach for analyzing the security of an application. It is a structured approach that enables you to ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The application must not be subject to error handling vulnerabilities.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Error handling is the failure to check the return values of functions or catch top level exceptions within a program. Imprope...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The system must alert an administrator when low resource conditions are encountered.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In order to prevent DoS type attacks, applications should be monitored when resource conditions reach a predefined threshold....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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