Security Audit

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TODO: goto source and give BBC credit in notes

Form the BBC, we learn of a report by the National Security Agency on the most dangerous coding errors:

  • CWE-20:Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-116:Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
  • CWE-89:Failure to Preserve SQL Query Structure
  • CWE-79:Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure
  • CWE-78:Failure to Preserve OS Command Structure
  • CWE-319:Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
  • CWE-352:Cross-Site Request Forgery
  • CWE-362:Race Condition
  • CWE-209:Error Message Information Leak
  • CWE-119:Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
  • CWE-642:External Control of Critical State Data
  • CWE-73:External Control of File Name or Path
  • CWE-426:Untrusted Search Path
  • CWE-94:Failure to Control Generation of Code
  • CWE-494:Download of Code Without Integrity Check
  • CWE-404:Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
  • CWE-665:Improper Initialization
  • CWE-682:Incorrect Calculation
  • CWE-285:Improper Access Control
  • CWE-327:Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
  • CWE-259:Hard-Coded Password
  • CWE-732:Insecure Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
  • CWE-330:Use of Insufficiently Random Values
  • CWE-250:Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
  • CWE-602:Client-Side Enforcement of Server-Side Security

Source: SANS Institute

also of interest: Linux Security Tools

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