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Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-APP-000157
The application must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts.
The application must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts.
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The application must implement replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to nonprivileged accounts.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>A replay attack is a man-in-the-middle style attack which allows an attacker to repeat or alter a valid data transmission that may enable unauthorized access to the application. Authentication sessions between the authenticating client and the application server validating the user credentials must not be vulnerable to a replay attack. The protection methods selected to protect against a replay attack will vary according to the application architecture. An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message. A nonprivileged account is any operating system account with authorizations of a nonprivileged user. Techniques used to address this include protocols using nonces (e.g., numbers generated for a specific one time use), challenges (e.g., TLS, WS_Security), and PKI certificates. Additional techniques include time-synchronous or challenge-response one-time authenticators.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>