Details
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.
NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.
Solution
If the BIG-IP ASM module is used to support content filtering as part of the traffic management functionality of the BIG-IP Core, configure 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.
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system F5.
References
- 800-53|AC-23
- CAT|II
- CCI|CCI-002346
- Rule-ID|SV-74507r1_rule
- STIG-ID|F5BI-AS-000159
- Vuln-ID|V-60077