To protect against data mining, the BIG-IP Core implementation providing content filtering must be configured to prevent code injection attacks from being launched against application objects, including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from unauthorized data mining may result in the compromise of information. Injection attacks allow an attacker to inject code into a program or query or inject malware into 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. Compliance requires the ALG to have the capability to prevent code injections. Examples include Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) or database application gateways.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-215774r831462_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
If the BIG-IP Core performs content filtering as part of the traffic management functionality, configure the BIG-IP Core as follows:
Configure a policy in the BIG-IP ASM module to prevent code injection attacks from being launched against application objects, including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.
Apply ASM policy to the applicable Virtual Server(s) in BIG-IP LTM module to prevent code injection attacks from being launched against application objects, including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code.