Lightboard Lessons: OWASP Top 10 - Insecure Deserialization

The OWASP Top 10 is a list of the most common security risks on the Internet today.  Insecure Deserialization comes in at the #8 spot in the latest edition of the OWASP Top 10.  In this video, John discusses this vulnerability and outlines some mitigation steps to make sure your web application stays secure against this threat.

 

 

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  • sachin_80710's avatar
    sachin_80710
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    Mar 06, 2018

    Hi John,

     

    Which setting in ASM policy need to be configured to inspect such traffic?

     

    How ASM would protect against such attack ?

     

     

    Thanks,

     

    Sachin

     

  • ltwagnon's avatar
    ltwagnon
    Ret. Employee
    Apr 20, 2018

    Hi sachin...great question! The ASM handles Insecure Deserialization mostly through attack signatures. So, it should catch these attempts as a normal part of the way it functions no matter which type of policy you create. Just make sure the standard attack signatures are enabled (which they are by default on any policy). A few examples of signatures that catch Insecure Deserialization attempts are:

     

    • 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)

    Hope this helps!