The OWASP Top 10 - 2017 vs. BIG-IP ASM

With the release of the new 2017 Edition of the OWASP Top 10, we wanted to give a quick rundown of how BIG-IP ASM can mitigate these vulnerabilities.

First, here's how the 2013 edition compares to 2017.

And how BIG-IP ASM mitigates the vulnerabilities.

	Vulnerability	BIG-IP ASM Controls
A1	Injection Flaws	Attack signatures Meta character restrictions Parameter value length restrictions
A2	Broken Authentication and Session Management	Brute Force protection Session tracking HTTP cookie protection
A3	Sensitive Data Exposure	Data Guard
A4	XML External Entities (XXE)	Attack signatures (see below)
A5	Broken Access Control	File types URL URL flows Session tracking URL flows Attack signatures (Directory traversal)
A6	Security Misconfiguration	Attack Signatures
A7	Cross-site Scripting (XSS)	Attack signatures Parameter meta characters Parameter value length restrictions Parameter type definitions (such as integer)
A8	Insecure Deserialization	Attack Signatures (see below)
A9	Using components with known vulnerabilities	Attack Signatures integration
A10	Insufficient Logging and Monitoring	BIG-IP ASM can help with the monitoring process to detect, alarm and deter attacks

Specifically, we have attack signatures for “A4:2017-XML External Entities (XXE)”:

• 200018018           External entity injection attempt

• 200018030           XML External Entity (XXE) injection attempt (Content)

Also, XXE attack could be mitigated by XML profile, by disabling DTDs (and of course enabling the “Malformed XML data” violation):

For “A8:2017-Insecure Deserialization” we have many signatures, which usually include the name “serialization” or “serialized object”, like:

• 200004188           PHP object serialization injection attempt (Parameter)
• 200003425           Java Base64 serialized object - java/lang/Runtime (Parameter)
• 200004282           Node.js Serialized Object Remote Code Execution (Parameter)

A quick run-down thanks to some of our security folks.

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Related:

• What’s New In The OWASP Top 10 And How TO Use It
• BIG-IP ASM Operations Guide