Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Insecure direct object reference (IDOR) is a type of access control vulnerability in digital security. [1]This can occur when a web application or application programming interface uses an identifier for direct access to an object in an internal database but does not check for access control or authentication.
The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (formerly Open Web Application Security Project [7]) (OWASP) is an online community that produces freely available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the fields of IoT, system software and web application security.
In software development, time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU, TOCTTOU or TOC/TOU) is a class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system (such as a security credential) and the use of the results of that check.
The OWASP project publishes its SecList software content under CC-by-SA 3.0; this page takes no position on whether the list data is subject to database copyright or in the public domain. It represents the top 10,000 passwords from a list of 10 million compiled by Mark Burnett; for other specific attributions, see the readme file. The passwords ...
The final specification was named CVSSv3.0 and released in June 2015. In addition to a Specification Document, a User Guide and Examples document were also released. [12] Several metrics were changed, added, and removed. The numerical formulas were updated to incorporate the new metrics while retaining the existing scoring range of 0-10.
HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP) is a web application vulnerability exploited by injecting encoded query string delimiters in already existing parameters.The vulnerability occurs if user input is not correctly encoded for output by a web application. [1]
Cross-site scripting (XSS) [a] is a type of security vulnerability that can be found in some web applications.XSS attacks enable attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users.
When a given threat is assessed using DREAD, each category is given a rating from 1 to 10. [3] The sum of all ratings for a given issue can be used to prioritize among different issues. Discoverability debate