Kingdom: Encapsulation

Encapsulation is about drawing strong boundaries. In a web browser that might mean ensuring that your mobile code cannot be abused by other mobile code. On the server it might mean differentiation between validated data and unvalidated data, between one user's data and another's, or between data users are allowed to see and data that they are not.

ADF Bad Practices: Default url-invoke-disallowed Setting

Java/JSP

Abstract

Relying on an implicit default url-invoke-disallowed setting lacks clarity and can lead to unwanted behavior if the default changes unexpectedly.

Explanation

By default, task flows in a Fusion application are not directly accessible from a GET request: whenever a URL attempts to invoke the task flow, it receives an HTTP 403 status code. However, relying on an implicit setting always lacks clarity and can potentially lead to unwanted behavior if the default setting changes underneath.

Example 1: The following snippet from a task flow definition file shows an example of a task flow configured with the implicit default url-invoke-disallowed setting.


...
    <task-flow-definition id="password">
        <default-activity>PasswordPrompt</default-activity>
        <view id="PasswordPrompt">
            <page>/PasswordPrompt.jsff</page>
        </view>
        <use-page-fragments/>
    </task-flow-definition>
...

References

[1] Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware Fusion Developer's Guide for Oracle Application Development Framework, 15.6.4.How to Call a Bounded Task Flow Using a URL

[2] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-000213, CCI-001084, CCI-002165

[3] Standards Mapping - FIPS200 CM

[4] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 AC-3 Access Enforcement (P1), SC-3 Security Function Isolation (P1)

[5] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 AC-3 Access Enforcement, SC-3 Security Function Isolation

[6] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M1 Weak Server Side Controls

[7] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M8 Security Misconfiguration

[8] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2004 A10 Insecure Configuration Management

[9] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A5 Security Misconfiguration

[10] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A6 Security Misconfiguration

[11] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration

[12] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[13] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[14] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[15] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[16] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[17] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[18] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[19] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[20] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[21] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[22] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[23] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[24] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[25] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[26] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 6.1 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II

[27] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Application Misconfiguration (WASC-15)

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