F5BI-AS-000157 - To protect against data mining, the BIG-IP ASM module must be configured to prevent code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields when providing content filtering to virtual servers.

Information

Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from unauthorized data mining may result in the compromise of information.

Injection attacks allow an attacker to inject code into a program or query or inject malware into a computer to execute remote commands that can read or modify a database or change data on a website. Web applications frequently access databases to store, retrieve, and update information. An attacker can construct inputs that the database will execute. This is most commonly referred to as a code injection attack. This type of attack includes XPath and LDAP injections.

Compliance requires the Application Layer Gateway (ALG) to have the capability to prevent code injections. Examples include Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) or database application gateways.

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

If the BIG-IP ASM module is used to support content filtering as part of the traffic management functionality of the BIG-IP Core, configure the BIG-IP ASM module to prevent code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_F5_BIG-IP_Y24M01_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-23, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-002346, Rule-ID|SV-214508r831452_rule, STIG-ID|F5BI-AS-000157, STIG-Legacy|SV-74505, STIG-Legacy|V-60075, Vuln-ID|V-214508

Plugin: F5

Control ID: e262c00e37325f949929bf70613304b143a08877a42d954f65470264d5c0c159