Generic Web Service Security

V13.1.1

Verify that all application components use the same encodings and parsers to avoid parsing attacks that exploit different URI or file parsing behavior that could be used in SSRF and RFI attacks.

Level 1 required: True

Level 2 required: True

Level 3 required: True

CWE: 116

V13.1.2

[DELETED, DUPLICATE OF 4.3.1]

Level 1 required: False

Level 2 required: False

Level 3 required: False

CWE:

V13.1.3

Verify API URLs do not expose sensitive information, such as the API key, session tokens etc.

Level 1 required: True

Level 2 required: True

Level 3 required: True

CWE: 598

V13.1.4

Verify that authorization decisions are made at both the URI, enforced by programmatic or declarative security at the controller or router, and at the resource level, enforced by model-based permissions.

Level 1 required: False

Level 2 required: True

Level 3 required: True

CWE: 285

V13.1.5

Verify that requests containing unexpected or missing content types are rejected with appropriate headers (HTTP response status 406 Unacceptable or 415 Unsupported Media Type).

Level 1 required: False

Level 2 required: True

Level 3 required: True

CWE: 434

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