132 items found
Weaknesses
Abstract
The CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability is granted to a Pod.
Explanation
A Kubernetes capability permits a Pod to perform named root actions without giving full root access. The CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability grants the permission to perform the widest possible range of system administration operations to a Pod.

Example 1: The following Kubernetes manifest adds the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability to a container in a Pod.

...
kind: Pod
...
spec:
containers:
...
securityContext:
capabilities:
add:
- CAP_SYS_ADMIN
- SYS_TIME
...
References
[1] Configure a Security Context for a Pod or Container The Kubernetes Authors
[2] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark complete
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Cloud Computing Platform Benchmark complete
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[8] Standards Mapping - CIS Kubernetes Benchmark complete
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 20
[10] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2019 [3] CWE ID 020
[11] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2020 [3] CWE ID 020
[12] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2021 [4] CWE ID 020
[13] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2022 [4] CWE ID 020
[14] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-000213, CCI-001084
[15] Standards Mapping - FIPS200 CM
[16] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Indirect Access to Sensitive Data
[17] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 AC-6 Least Privilege (P1)
[18] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 AC-6 Least Privilege
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2004 A10 Insecure Configuration Management
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A5 Security Misconfiguration
[22] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[23] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration
[24] Standards Mapping - OWASP API 2023 API8 Security Misconfiguration
[25] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 5.1.3 Input Validation Requirements (L1 L2 L3), 5.1.4 Input Validation Requirements (L1 L2 L3)
[26] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M1 Weak Server Side Controls
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 2.2.3, Requirement 6.5.10
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 2.2.3
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 2.2.3
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 2.2.4, Requirement 6.5.6
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 2.2.4, Requirement 6.5.6
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 2.2.4, Requirement 6.5.6
[33] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 2.2.4, Requirement 6.5.6
[34] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 2.2.6
[35] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 4.2 - Critical Asset Protection
[36] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 4.2 - Critical Asset Protection
[37] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 4.2 - Critical Asset Protection
[38] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2009 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 020
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3500 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3500 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3500 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3500 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3500 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP3500 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP3500 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[54] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[55] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[56] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[57] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[58] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-002360 CAT II
[59] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Application Misconfiguration (WASC-15)
desc.structural.yaml.kubernetes_misconfiguration_overly_permissive_capabilities
Abstract
Permission to invoke EJB methods should not be granted to the ANYONE role.
Explanation
If the EJB deployment descriptor contains one or more method permissions that grant access to the special ANYONE role, it indicates that access control for the application has not been fully thought through or that the application is structured in such a way that reasonable access control restrictions are impossible.

Example 1: The following deployment descriptor grants ANYONE permission to invoke the Employee EJB's method named getSalary().


<ejb-jar>
...
<assembly-descriptor>
<method-permission>
<role-name>ANYONE</role-name>
<method>
<ejb-name>Employee</ejb-name>
<method-name>getSalary</method-name>
</method-permission>
</assembly-descriptor>
...
</ejb-jar>
References
[1] A. Taylor et al. J2EE & Java: Developing Secure Web Applications with Java Technology (Hacking Exposed) Osborne/McGraw-Hill
[2] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 5
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark confidentiality
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Kubernetes Benchmark partial
[7] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 9
[8] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [22] CWE ID 269
[9] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-000213, CCI-000804, CCI-002165
[10] Standards Mapping - FIPS200 AC
[11] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[12] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 AC-3 Access Enforcement (P1)
[13] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 AC-3 Access Enforcement
[14] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2004 A2 Broken Access Control
[15] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A10 Failure to Restrict URL Access
[16] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A8 Failure to Restrict URL Access
[17] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A5 Security Misconfiguration
[18] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 14.1.3 Build (L2 L3)
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[22] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 6.5.2, Requirement 7.2
[23] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.10, Requirement 7.2
[24] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.8, Requirement 7.2
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.8, Requirement 7.2
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.8, Requirement 7.2
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.8, Requirement 7.2
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.8, Requirement 7.2
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4, Requirement 7.3.2
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.3 - Authentication and Access Control
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.3 - Authentication and Access Control
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.3 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls, Control Objective C.2.1.2 - Web Software Access Controls
[33] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3480.2 CAT II
[34] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3480.2 CAT II
[35] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3480.2 CAT II
[36] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3480.2 CAT II
[37] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3480.2 CAT II
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP3480.2 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP3480.2 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-000460 CAT I, APSC-DV-000470 CAT II, APSC-DV-001870 CAT II
[54] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Application Misconfiguration (WASC-15), Insufficient Authentication (WASC-01)
[55] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Insufficient Authentication
desc.config.java.j2ee_misconfiguration_weak_access_permissions
Abstract
The SameSite parameter on session cookies is not set to Strict.
Explanation
Browsers automatically append cookies to every HTTP request made to the site that sets the cookie. Cookies might store sensitive data such as session ID and authorization token or site data that is shared between different requests to the same site during a session. An attacker can perform an impersonation attack by generating a request to the authenticated site from a third-party site page loaded on the client machine because the browser automatically appended the cookie to the request.

The SameSite parameter limits the scope of the cookie so that it is only attached to a request if the request is generated from first-party or same-site context. This helps to protect cookies from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. The SameSite parameter can have the following three values:

- Strict: When set to Strict, cookies are only sent along with requests upon top-level navigation.
- Lax: When set to Lax, cookies are sent with top-level navigation from the same host as well as GET requests originated to the host from third-party sites. For example, suppose a third-party site has either iframe or href tags that link to the host site. If a user follows the link, the request will include the cookie.
- None: Cookies are sent in all requests made to the site within the path and domain scope set for the cookie. Requests generated due to form submissions using the POST method are also allowed to send cookies with the request.

Example 1: The following code sets the SameSite parameter to Lax for session cookies.

...
Cookie cookie = new Cookie('name', 'Foo', path, -1, true, 'Lax');
...
References
[1] HTTP State Management Mechanism Internet Engineering Task Force
[2] SameSite Browser Compatibility Can I Use
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark complete
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[8] Standards Mapping - CIS Kubernetes Benchmark complete
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 352
[10] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2019 [9] CWE ID 352
[11] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2020 [9] CWE ID 352
[12] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2021 [9] CWE ID 352
[13] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2022 [9] CWE ID 352
[14] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [9] CWE ID 352
[15] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001310, CCI-001941, CCI-001942
[16] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[17] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-23 Session Authenticity (P1)
[18] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-23 Session Authenticity
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A5 Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A5 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[22] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A01 Broken Access Control
[23] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 3.4.3 Cookie-based Session Management (L1 L2 L3)
[24] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[25] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M3 Insecure Authentication/Authorization
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.5
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.9
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[33] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[34] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[35] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[36] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2009 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[37] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2010 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[38] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2011 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3585 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3585 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3585 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3585 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3585 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP3585 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP3585 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[54] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[55] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[56] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[57] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[58] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[59] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[60] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Cross-Site Request Forgery (WASC-09)
[61] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Cross-Site Request Forgery
desc.semantic.apex.cookie_security_overly_permissive_samesite_attribute
Abstract
The SameSite attribute on session cookies is not set to Strict.
Explanation
The SameSite attribute protects cookies from attacks such as Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Session cookies represent a user to the site so that the user can perform authorized actions. However, the browser automatically sends the cookies with the request and therefore users and web sites implicitly trust the browser for authorization. An attacker can misuse this trust and make a request to the site on behalf of the user by embedding links inside the href and src attribute of tags such as link and iframe in third-party site pages that an attacker controls. If an attacker is able to lure an unsuspecting user to the third-party site that they control, the attacker can make requests that automatically include the session cookie authorizing the user, effectively authorizing the attacker as if they were the user.
Set the value of the SameSite attribute to Strict in session cookies. This restricts the browser to append cookies only to requests that are either top-level navigation or originate from the same site. Requests that originate from third-party sites via links in various tags such as iframe, img, and form do not have these cookies and therefore prevent the site from taking action that the user might not have authorized.

Example 1: The following code sets the value of the SameSite attribute to Lax for session cookies.

...
CookieOptions opt = new CookieOptions()
{
SameSite = SameSiteMode.Lax;
};
context.Response.Cookies.Append("name", "Foo", opt);
...
References
[1] HTTP State Management Mechanism Internet Engineering Task Force
[2] SameSite Browser Compatibility Can I Use
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark complete
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[8] Standards Mapping - CIS Kubernetes Benchmark complete
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 352
[10] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2019 [9] CWE ID 352
[11] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2020 [9] CWE ID 352
[12] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2021 [9] CWE ID 352
[13] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2022 [9] CWE ID 352
[14] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [9] CWE ID 352
[15] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001310, CCI-001941, CCI-001942
[16] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[17] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-23 Session Authenticity (P1)
[18] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-23 Session Authenticity
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A5 Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A5 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[22] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A01 Broken Access Control
[23] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 3.4.3 Cookie-based Session Management (L1 L2 L3)
[24] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[25] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M3 Insecure Authentication/Authorization
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.5
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.9
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[33] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[34] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[35] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[36] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2009 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[37] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2010 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[38] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2011 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3585 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3585 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3585 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3585 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3585 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP3585 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP3585 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[54] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[55] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[56] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[57] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[58] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[59] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[60] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Cross-Site Request Forgery (WASC-09)
[61] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Cross-Site Request Forgery
desc.semantic.dotnet.cookie_security_overly_permissive_samesite_attribute
Abstract
The SameSite attribute on session cookies is not set to SameSiteStrictMode.
Explanation
The SameSite attribute protects cookies from attacks such as Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Session cookies represent a user to the site so that the user can perform authorized actions. However, the browser automatically sends the cookies with the request and therefore users and web sites implicitly trust the browser for authorization. An attacker can misuse this trust and make a request to the site on behalf of the user by embedding links inside the href and src attribute of tags such as link and iframe in third-party site pages that an attacker controls. If an attacker is able to lure an unsuspecting user to the third-party site that they control, the attacker can make requests that automatically include the session cookie authorizing the user, effectively authorizing the attacker as if they were the user.
Set session cookies with SameSiteStrictMode for the SameSite attribute, which restricts the browser to append cookies only to requests that are either top-level navigation or originate from the same site. Requests that originate from third-party sites via links in various tags such as iframe, img, and form do not have these cookies and therefore prevent the site from taking action that the user might not have authorized.

Example 1: The following code enables SameSiteLaxMode in the SameSite attribute for session cookies.

c := &http.Cookie{
Name: "cookie",
Value: "samesite-lax",
SameSite: http.SameSiteLaxMode,
}
References
[1] SameSite Browser Compatibility Can I Use
[2] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark complete
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Kubernetes Benchmark complete
[8] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 352
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2019 [9] CWE ID 352
[10] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2020 [9] CWE ID 352
[11] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2021 [9] CWE ID 352
[12] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2022 [9] CWE ID 352
[13] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [9] CWE ID 352
[14] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001310, CCI-001941, CCI-001942
[15] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[16] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-23 Session Authenticity (P1)
[17] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-23 Session Authenticity
[18] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A5 Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A5 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A01 Broken Access Control
[22] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 3.4.3 Cookie-based Session Management (L1 L2 L3)
[23] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[24] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M3 Insecure Authentication/Authorization
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.5
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.9
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[33] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[34] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[35] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2009 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[36] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2010 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[37] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2011 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3585 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3585 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3585 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3585 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3585 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP3585 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP3585 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[54] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[55] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[56] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[57] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[58] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[59] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Cross-Site Request Forgery (WASC-09)
[60] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Cross-Site Request Forgery
desc.semantic.golang.cookie_security_overly_permissive_samesite_attribute
Abstract
The SameSite attribute on session cookies is not set to Strict.
Explanation
The SameSite attribute protects cookies from attacks such as Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Session cookies represent a user to the site so that the user can perform authorized actions. However, the browser automatically sends the cookies with the request and therefore users and web sites implicitly trust the browser for authorization. An attacker can misuse this trust and make a request to the site on behalf of the user by embedding links inside the href and src attribute of tags such as link and iframe in third-party site pages that an attacker controls. If an attacker is able to lure an unsuspecting user to the third-party site that they control, the attacker can make requests that automatically include the session cookie authorizing the user, effectively authorizing the attacker as if they were the user.
Set the value of the SameSite attribute to Strict in session cookies. This restricts the browser to append cookies only to requests that are either top-level navigation or originate from the same site. Requests that originate from third-party sites via links in various tags such as iframe, img, and form do not have these cookies and therefore prevent the site from taking action that the user might not have authorized.

Example 1: The following code sets the value of the SameSite attribute to Lax for session cookies.

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
...
res.cookie('name', 'Foo', { sameSite: "Lax" });
...
}
References
[1] HTTP State Management Mechanism Internet Engineering Task Force
[2] SameSite Browser Compatibility Can I Use
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark complete
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[8] Standards Mapping - CIS Kubernetes Benchmark complete
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 352
[10] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2019 [9] CWE ID 352
[11] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2020 [9] CWE ID 352
[12] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2021 [9] CWE ID 352
[13] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2022 [9] CWE ID 352
[14] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [9] CWE ID 352
[15] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001310, CCI-001941, CCI-001942
[16] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[17] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-23 Session Authenticity (P1)
[18] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-23 Session Authenticity
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A5 Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A5 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[22] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A01 Broken Access Control
[23] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 3.4.3 Cookie-based Session Management (L1 L2 L3)
[24] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[25] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M3 Insecure Authentication/Authorization
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.5
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.9
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[33] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[34] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[35] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[36] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2009 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[37] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2010 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[38] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2011 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3585 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3585 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3585 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3585 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3585 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP3585 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP3585 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[54] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[55] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[56] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[57] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[58] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[59] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[60] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Cross-Site Request Forgery (WASC-09)
[61] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Cross-Site Request Forgery
desc.dataflow.javascript.cookie_security_overly_permissive_samesite_attribute
Abstract
The SameSite attribute on session cookies is not set to Strict.
Explanation
The SameSite attribute protects cookies from attacks such as Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Session cookies represent a user to the site so that the user can perform authorized actions. However, the browser automatically sends the cookies with the request and therefore users and web sites implicitly trust the browser for authorization. An attacker can misuse this trust and make a request to the site on behalf of the user by embedding links inside the href and src attribute of tags such as link and iframe in third-party site pages that an attacker controls. If an attacker is able to lure an unsuspecting user to the third-party site that they control, the attacker can make requests that automatically include the session cookie authorizing the user, effectively authorizing the attacker as if they were the user.
Set session cookies with Strict for the SameSite attribute, which restricts the browser to append cookies only to requests that are either top-level navigation or originate from the same site. Requests that originate from third-party sites via links in various tags such as iframe, img, and form do not have these cookies and therefore prevent the site from taking action that the user might not have authorized.

Example 1: The following code enables the Lax mode in the SameSite attribute for session cookies.

session.cookie_samesite=Lax
References
[1] Runtime Configuration The PHP Group
[2] SameSite Browser Compatibility Can I Use
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark complete
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[8] Standards Mapping - CIS Kubernetes Benchmark complete
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 352
[10] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2019 [9] CWE ID 352
[11] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2020 [9] CWE ID 352
[12] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2021 [9] CWE ID 352
[13] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2022 [9] CWE ID 352
[14] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [9] CWE ID 352
[15] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001310, CCI-001941, CCI-001942
[16] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[17] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-23 Session Authenticity (P1)
[18] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-23 Session Authenticity
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A5 Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A5 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[22] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A01 Broken Access Control
[23] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 3.4.3 Cookie-based Session Management (L1 L2 L3)
[24] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[25] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M3 Insecure Authentication/Authorization
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.5
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.9
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[33] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[34] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[35] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[36] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2009 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[37] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2010 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[38] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2011 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3585 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3585 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3585 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3585 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3585 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP3585 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP3585 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[54] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[55] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[56] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[57] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[58] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[59] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[60] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Cross-Site Request Forgery (WASC-09)
[61] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Cross-Site Request Forgery
desc.config.php.cookie_security_overly_permissive_samesite_attribute
Abstract
The SameSite attribute on session cookies is not set to Strict.
Explanation
The SameSite attribute protects cookies from attacks such as Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Session cookies represent a user to the site so that the user can perform authorized actions. However, the browser automatically sends the cookies with the request and therefore users and web sites implicitly trust the browser for authorization. An attacker can misuse this trust and make a request to the site on behalf of the user by embedding links inside the href and src attribute of tags such as link and iframe in third-party site pages that an attacker controls. If an attacker lures an unsuspecting user to the third-party site that they control, the attacker can make requests that automatically include the session cookie with user authorization. This effectively gives the attacker access with the user's authorization.
Set session cookies to Strict for the SameSite parameter, which restricts the browser to append cookies only to requests that are either top-level navigation or originate from the same site. Requests that originate from third-party sites via links in various tags such as iframe, img, and form do not have these cookies and therefore prevent the site from taking action that the user might not have authorized.

Example 1: The following code enables Lax in the samesite attribute for session cookies.

response.set_cookie("cookie", value="samesite-lax", samesite="Lax")
References
[1] SameSite Browser Compatibility Can I Use
[2] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark complete
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Kubernetes Benchmark complete
[8] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 352
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2019 [9] CWE ID 352
[10] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2020 [9] CWE ID 352
[11] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2021 [9] CWE ID 352
[12] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2022 [9] CWE ID 352
[13] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [9] CWE ID 352
[14] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001310, CCI-001941, CCI-001942
[15] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[16] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-23 Session Authenticity (P1)
[17] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-23 Session Authenticity
[18] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A5 Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A5 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A01 Broken Access Control
[22] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 3.4.3 Cookie-based Session Management (L1 L2 L3)
[23] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[24] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M3 Insecure Authentication/Authorization
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.5
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.9
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[33] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[34] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[35] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2009 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[36] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2010 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[37] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2011 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3585 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3585 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3585 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3585 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3585 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP3585 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP3585 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[54] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[55] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[56] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[57] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[58] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[59] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Cross-Site Request Forgery (WASC-09)
[60] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Cross-Site Request Forgery
desc.semantic.python.cookie_security_overly_permissive_samesite_attribute
Abstract
The SameSite attribute on Session Cookies is not set to Strict value.
Explanation
The SameSite attribute protects cookies from attacks such as Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Session cookies represent a user to the site to allow user to perform authorized actions. However, the browser automatically sends the cookies and therefore user and web sites put an implicit trust on the browser for authorization. An attacker can misuse this trust and make a requests to the site on behalf of the user by embedding links inside the href and src attribute of tags such as link and iframe in third-party site pages that an attacker controls. With this, an attacker can trick an unsuspecting user to load this third party site page in the browser while the user still has authorization to the site that the attacker intends to exploit.
Set session cookies with the Strict value for the SameSite attribute, which restricts the browser to append cookies only to requests that are either top level navigation or originate from the same site. Requests that originate from third-party site via links in various tags such as iframe, img, and form do not have these cookies and therefore prevent the site from taking action that the user might not have authorized.
References
[1] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[2] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark complete
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Kubernetes Benchmark complete
[7] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 352
[8] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2019 [9] CWE ID 352
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2020 [9] CWE ID 352
[10] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2021 [9] CWE ID 352
[11] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2022 [9] CWE ID 352
[12] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [9] CWE ID 352
[13] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001310, CCI-001941, CCI-001942
[14] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[15] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-23 Session Authenticity (P1)
[16] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-23 Session Authenticity
[17] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A5 Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[18] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A5 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A01 Broken Access Control
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 3.4.3 Cookie-based Session Management (L1 L2 L3)
[22] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[23] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M3 Insecure Authentication/Authorization
[24] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.5
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.9
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.9
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.9
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[33] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[34] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2009 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[35] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2010 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[36] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2011 Insecure Interaction - CWE ID 352
[37] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3585 CAT II
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3585 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3585 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3585 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3585 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.9 APP3585 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.10 APP3585 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[54] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[55] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[56] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[57] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-001620 CAT II, APSC-DV-001630 CAT II, APSC-DV-002500 CAT II
[58] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Cross-Site Request Forgery (WASC-09)
[59] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Cross-Site Request Forgery
desc.dynamic.xtended_preview.Cookie_Security_Overly_Permissive_SameSite_Attribute
Abstract
Setting the Referrer-Policy header to Unsafe-URL might cause applications to expose sensitive site and user data (including session token, usernames and passwords) to third-party sites.
Explanation
Browsers do not send the referrer header by default with requests originated from HTTPS to unencrypted HTTP links. However, when a request destination is also HTTPS, the header is sent regardless of the origin. A developer might leave sensitive information in URLs, which are exposed to third-party sites via the referrer header. The Referrer-Policy header is introduced to control browser behavior related to the referrer header. The Unsafe-URL option removes all restrictions and sends the referrer header with every request.

Example: The following code configures a Spring Security protected application to disable the default secure the referrer policy:

<http auto-config="true">
...
<headers>
...
<referrer-policy policy="unsafe-url"/>
</headers>
</http>
References
[1] Referrer-Policy
[2] OWASP OWASP Secure Headers Project
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 4
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 3
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark normal
[7] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 942
[8] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [24] CWE ID 863
[9] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-002418, CCI-002420, CCI-002421, CCI-002422
[10] Standards Mapping - FIPS200 CM
[11] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[12] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-8 Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity (P1)
[13] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-8 Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity
[14] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2004 A10 Insecure Configuration Management
[15] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A6 Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling
[16] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[17] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A6 Sensitive Data Exposure
[18] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A3 Sensitive Data Exposure
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 14.4.6 HTTP Security Headers Requirements (L1 L2 L3), 14.5.3 Validate HTTP Request Header Requirements (L1 L2 L3)
[21] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M8 Security Misconfiguration
[22] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 6.5.10
[23] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.10
[24] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.8
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[32] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[33] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2011 Porous Defenses - CWE ID 732
[34] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3250.1 CAT I
[35] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3250.1 CAT I
[36] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3250.1 CAT I
[37] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3250.1 CAT I
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3250.1 CAT I
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[53] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Application Misconfiguration (WASC-15)
[54] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Information Leakage
desc.config.java.html5_overly_permissive_referrer_policy
Abstract
Setting Referrer-Policy header to "Unsafe-URL" may cause applications to expose sensitive site and user data, such as session token and username and passwords to third party sites.
Explanation
Browsers do not send referrer header by default with requests originated from HTTPS to unencrypted HTTP links. However, when a request destination is also HTTPS, the header is sent regardless of the origin. Unbeknownst to the latter, a developer may leave sensitive information in the URLs, which are exposed to third party sites via referrer header. Referrer-Policy header is introduced in order to control browser behavior related to referrer header. The Unsafe-URL option removes all restrictions and sends the referrer header with every request. The safe option would be selecting "same-origin" as it will restrict referrer to be sent only with requests to destination with the same origin.
References
[1] Referrer Policy W3C
[2] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 1
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 4
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 3
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark normal
[6] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 942
[7] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [24] CWE ID 863
[8] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-002418, CCI-002420, CCI-002421, CCI-002422
[9] Standards Mapping - FIPS200 CM
[10] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[11] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 SC-8 Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity (P1)
[12] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 SC-8 Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity
[13] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2004 A10 Insecure Configuration Management
[14] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2007 A6 Information Leakage and Improper Error Handling
[15] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[16] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A6 Sensitive Data Exposure
[17] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A3 Sensitive Data Exposure
[18] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 14.4.6 HTTP Security Headers Requirements (L1 L2 L3), 14.5.3 Validate HTTP Request Header Requirements (L1 L2 L3)
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M8 Security Misconfiguration
[21] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 6.5.10
[22] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.2 Requirement 6.5.10
[23] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[24] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.8
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[31] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[32] Standards Mapping - SANS Top 25 2011 Porous Defenses - CWE ID 732
[33] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.1 APP3250.1 CAT I
[34] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.4 APP3250.1 CAT I
[35] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.5 APP3250.1 CAT I
[36] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.6 APP3250.1 CAT I
[37] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 3.7 APP3250.1 CAT I
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[45] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[46] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[47] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[48] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[49] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[50] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[51] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-002440 CAT I, APSC-DV-002450 CAT II, APSC-DV-002460 CAT II, APSC-DV-002470 CAT II
[52] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Application Misconfiguration (WASC-15)
[53] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium 24 + 2 Information Leakage
desc.dynamic.xtended_preview.html5_overly_permissive_referrer_policy
Abstract
The program posts a cross-document message with an overly permissive target origin.
Explanation
One of the new features of HTML5 is cross-document messaging. The feature allows scripts to post messages to other windows. The corresponding API allows the user to specify the origin of the target window. However, caution should be taken when specifying the target origin because an overly permissive target origin will allow a malicious script to communicate with the victim window in an inappropriate way, leading to spoofing, data theft, relay, and other attacks.

Example 1: The following example uses a wildcard to programmatically specify the target origin of the message to be sent.


WebMessage message = new WebMessage(WEBVIEW_MESSAGE);
webview.postWebMessage(message, Uri.parse("*"));


Using the * as the value of the target origin indicates that the script is sending a message to a window regardless of its origin.
References
[1] Michael Schmidt HTML5 Web Security
[2] Philippe De Ryck, Lieven Desmet, Pieter Philippaerts, and Frank Piessens A Security Analysis of Next Generation Web Standards
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark partial
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 5
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[8] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 942
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [24] CWE ID 863
[10] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001368, CCI-001414
[11] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[12] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement (P1)
[13] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
[14] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A5 Security Misconfiguration
[15] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[16] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration
[17] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 14.4.6 HTTP Security Headers Requirements (L1 L2 L3), 14.5.3 Validate HTTP Request Header Requirements (L1 L2 L3)
[18] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M8 Security Misconfiguration
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard 2.0 MASVS-AUTH-1
[21] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 6.5.10
[22] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[23] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[24] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.8
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[31] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[32] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[33] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[34] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[35] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[36] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[37] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
desc.controlflow.java.html5_overly_permissive_message_posting_policy
Abstract
The program posts a cross-document message with an overly permissive target origin.
Explanation
One of the new features of HTML5 is cross-document messaging. The feature allows scripts to post messages to other windows. The corresponding API allows the user to specify the origin of the target window. However, caution should be taken when specifying the target origin because an overly permissive target origin will allow a malicious script to communicate with the victim window in an inappropriate way, leading to spoofing, data theft, relay, and other attacks.

Example 1: The following example uses a wildcard to programmatically specify the target origin of the message to be sent.


o.contentWindow.postMessage(message, '*');


Using the * as the value of the target origin indicates that the script is sending a message to a window regardless of its origin.
References
[1] Michael Schmidt HTML5 Web Security
[2] Philippe De Ryck, Lieven Desmet, Pieter Philippaerts, and Frank Piessens A Security Analysis of Next Generation Web Standards
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark partial
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 5
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[8] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration CWE ID 942
[9] Standards Mapping - Common Weakness Enumeration Top 25 2023 [24] CWE ID 863
[10] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001368, CCI-001414
[11] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Access Violation
[12] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement (P1)
[13] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
[14] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A5 Security Misconfiguration
[15] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[16] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration
[17] Standards Mapping - OWASP Application Security Verification Standard 4.0 14.4.6 HTTP Security Headers Requirements (L1 L2 L3), 14.5.3 Validate HTTP Request Header Requirements (L1 L2 L3)
[18] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[19] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M8 Security Misconfiguration
[20] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard 2.0 MASVS-AUTH-1
[21] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 6.5.10
[22] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[23] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[24] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.8
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[27] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[28] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[29] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[30] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[31] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[32] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[33] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[34] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[35] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[36] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[37] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[42] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[43] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[44] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
desc.structural.javascript.html5_overly_permissive_message_posting_policy
Abstract
The program defines an overly permissive custom headers policy.
Explanation
By default, Flash applications are subject to the Same Origin Policy which ensures that two SWF applications can access each other's data only if they come from the same domain. Adobe Flash allows developers to alter the policy either programmatically or via appropriate settings in the crossdomain.xml configuration file. Starting with Flash Player 9,0,124,0, Adobe also introduced the capability to define which custom headers Flash Player can send across domains. However, caution should be taken when defining these settings because an overly permissive custom headers policy, when applied together with the overly permissive cross-domain policy, will allow a malicious application to send headers of their choosing to the target application, potentially leading to a variety of attacks or causing errors in the execution of the application that does not know how to handle received headers.

Example 1: The following configuration shows the use of a wildcard to specify which headers Flash Player can send across domains.


<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="*"/>
</cross-domain-policy>


Using the * as the value of the headers attribute indicates that any header will be sent across domains.
References
[1] Peleus Uhley Creating more secure SWF web applications
[2] Matt Wood and Prajakta Jagdale Auditing Adobe Flash through Static Analysis
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark partial
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 5
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark integrity
[8] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001368, CCI-001414
[9] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Indirect Access to Sensitive Data
[10] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement (P1)
[11] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
[12] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A5 Security Misconfiguration
[13] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[14] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration
[15] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2014 M5 Poor Authorization and Authentication
[16] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 6.5.10
[17] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[18] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.8
[19] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[20] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[21] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[22] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[23] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[24] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[25] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[26] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[27] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[28] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[29] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[30] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[31] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[32] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[33] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[34] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[35] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[36] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[37] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Application Misconfiguration (WASC-15)
desc.config.actionscript.flash_misconfiguration_overly_permissive_custom_headers_policy
Abstract
Content Security Policy (CSP) is configured with an overly permissive policy which can pose security risks.
Explanation
Content Security Policy (CSP) is a declarative security header that enables developers to specify allowed security-related behavior within the browser, including an allow list of locations from which content can be retrieved. It provides an additional layer of security from critical vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting, clickjacking, cross-origin access and the like, on top of input validation and checking an allow list in code. An improperly configured header, however, fails to provide this additional layer of security. The policy is defined with the help of 15 directives including 8 that control resource access: script-src, img-src, object-src, style_src, font-src, media-src, frame-src, connect-src. These 8 directives take a source list as a value that specifies domains the site is allowed to access for a feature covered by that directive. Developers can use a wildcard * to indicate all or part of the source. Additional source list keywords such as 'unsafe-inline' and 'unsafe-eval' provide more granular control over script execution but are potentially harmful. None of the directives are mandatory. Browsers either allow all sources for an unlisted directive or derive its value from the optional default-src directive. Furthermore, the specification for this header has evolved over time. It was implemented as X-Content-Security-Policy in Firefox until version 23 and in IE until version 10, and was implemented as X-Webkit-CSP in Chrome until version 25. Both of these names are deprecated in favor of the now standard name Content Security Policy. Given the number of directives, two deprecated alternate names, and the way multiple occurrences of the same header and repeated directives in a single header are treated, there is a high probability that a developer can misconfigure this header.

Example 1: The following code sets an overly permissive and insecure default-src directive:

<http auto-config="true">
...
<headers>
...
<content-security-policy policy-directives="default-src '*'" />
</headers>
</http>
References
[1] OWASP Content Security Policy
[2] W3C Content Security Policy 1.1
[3] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 5
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark normal
[7] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001368, CCI-001414
[8] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Indirect Access to Sensitive Data
[9] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement (P1)
[10] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
[11] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[12] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A5 Security Misconfiguration
[13] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[14] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration
[15] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M8 Security Misconfiguration
[16] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 6.5.10
[17] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[18] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[19] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.8
[20] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[21] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[22] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[23] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[24] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[26] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[27] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[28] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[29] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[30] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[31] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[32] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[33] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[34] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[35] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[36] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[37] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Application Misconfiguration (WASC-15)
desc.config.java.html5_overly_permissive_content_security_policy
Abstract
Content Security Policy (CSP) is configured with an overly permissive policy which can pose security risks.
Explanation
Content Security Policy (CSP) is a declarative security header that enables developers to specify allowed security-related behavior within the browser, including an allow list of locations from which content can be retrieved. It provides an additional layer of security from critical vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting, clickjacking, cross-origin access and the like, on top of input validation and checking an allow list in code. An improperly configured header, however, fails to provide this additional layer of security. The policy is defined with the help of 15 directives including 8 that control resource access: script-src, img-src, object-src, style_src, font-src, media-src, frame-src, connect-src. These 8 directives take a source list as a value that specifies domains the site is allowed to access for a feature covered by that directive. Developers can use a wildcard * to indicate all or part of the source. Additional source list keywords such as 'unsafe-inline' and 'unsafe-eval' provide more granular control over script execution but are potentially harmful. None of the directives are mandatory. Browsers either allow all sources for an unlisted directive or derive its value from the optional default-src directive. Furthermore, the specification for this header has evolved over time. It was implemented as X-Content-Security-Policy in Firefox until version 23 and in IE until version 10, and was implemented as X-Webkit-CSP in Chrome until version 25. Both of these names are deprecated in favor of the now standard name Content Security Policy. Given the number of directives, two deprecated alternate names, and the way multiple occurrences of the same header and repeated directives in a single header are treated, there is a high probability that a developer can misconfigure this header.

In this case, a *-src directive has been configured with an overly permissive policy such as *Example 1: The following django-csp setting sets an overly permissive and insecure default-src directive:


...
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
...
'csp.middleware.CSPMiddleware',
...
)
...
CSP_DEFAULT_SRC = ("'self'", '*')
...
References
[1] OWASP Content Security Policy
[2] W3C Content Security Policy 1.1
[3] Mozilla django-csp
[4] Standards Mapping - CIS Azure Kubernetes Service Benchmark 2
[5] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Benchmark 5
[6] Standards Mapping - CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1
[7] Standards Mapping - CIS Google Kubernetes Engine Benchmark normal
[8] Standards Mapping - DISA Control Correlation Identifier Version 2 CCI-001368, CCI-001414
[9] Standards Mapping - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Indirect Access to Sensitive Data
[10] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement (P1)
[11] Standards Mapping - NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 AC-4 Information Flow Enforcement
[12] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2010 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[13] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2013 A5 Security Misconfiguration
[14] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2017 A6 Security Misconfiguration
[15] Standards Mapping - OWASP Top 10 2021 A05 Security Misconfiguration
[16] Standards Mapping - OWASP Mobile 2024 M8 Security Misconfiguration
[17] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 1.1 Requirement 6.5.10
[18] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 2.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[19] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.0 Requirement 6.5.8
[20] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2 Requirement 6.5.8
[21] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.2.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[22] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 3.1 Requirement 6.5.8
[23] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Version 4.0 Requirement 6.2.4
[24] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.0 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[25] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.1 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control
[26] Standards Mapping - Payment Card Industry Software Security Framework 1.2 Control Objective 5.4 - Authentication and Access Control, Control Objective C.2.3 - Web Software Access Controls
[27] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[28] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[29] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[30] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.4 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[31] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.5 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[32] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.6 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[33] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.7 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[34] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.8 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[35] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.9 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[36] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.10 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[37] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 4.11 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[38] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.1 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[39] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.2 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[40] Standards Mapping - Security Technical Implementation Guide Version 5.3 APSC-DV-000480 CAT II, APSC-DV-000490 CAT II
[41] Standards Mapping - Web Application Security Consortium Version 2.00 Application Misconfiguration (WASC-15)
desc.structural.python.html5_overly_permissive_content_security_policy