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The following report summarizes the results of a Website Application Security Assessment for [[ client_long_name ]]. [[ consultant_name ]] performs real time security assessments on networks and applications. These assessments attempt to uncover security issues in the target network and applications, highlighting the impact and risks associated with any discovered issues.

The objective of this engagement was to perform a penetration test to assess the overall level of security of the [[ client_short_name ]] website application. [[ consultant_name ]] defines vulnerabilities as the potential to either gain unauthorized access to a target system or extract sensitive data from it. Events including but not limited to: login bypass, ability to run commands on a target system, extraction of data from a database, a successful session hijack, credential theft, escalation of privileges are threat vectors that lead to compromises. This report includes potential vulnerabilities that may require an additional attack vector beyond the scope of this engagement to leverage a compromise. 

[[ consultant_name ]] performed a website application assessment for [[ client_short_name ]] using the OWASP Top 10 as the foundation for its assessment. The OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for developers and web application security. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications. Using the OWASP Top 10 is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces more secure code. 

As part of our pre-engagement interactions, [[ consultant_name ]] collaborated with [[ client_short_name ]]  to arrive at the testing parameters. Additionally, this report reflects the overall [[ consultant_name ]] effort and success or failure at discovering among several classes of technical vulnerabilities, such as those enumerated in the OWASP top ten and SANS CWE 25.

A01:2021-Broken Access Control moves up from the fifth position; The 34 Common Weakness Enumerations (CWEs) mapped to Broken Access Control had more occurrences in applications than any other category.

A02:2021-Cryptographic Failures shifts up one position to #2, previously known as Sensitive Data Exposure, which was broad symptom rather than a root cause. The renewed focus here is on failures related to cryptography which often leads to sensitive data exposure or system compromise.

A03:2021-Injection slides down to the third position. 94% of the applications were tested for some form of injection, and the 33 CWEs mapped into this category have the second most occurrences in applications. Cross-site Scripting is now part of this category in this edition.

A04:2021-Insecure Design is a new category for 2021, with a focus on risks related to design flaws. If we genuinely want to "move left" as an industry, it calls for more use of threat modeling, secure design patterns and principles, and reference architectures.

A05:2021-Security Misconfiguration moves up from #6 in the previous edition; 90% of applications were tested for some form of misconfiguration. With more shifts into highly configurable software, it's not surprising to see this category move up. The former category for XML External Entities (XXE) is now part of this category.

A06:2021-Vulnerable and Outdated Components was previously titled Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities and is #2 in the Top 10 community survey, but also had enough data to make the Top 10 via data analysis. This category moves up from #9 in 2017 and is a known issue that we struggle to test and assess risk. It is the only category not to have any Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVEs) mapped to the included CWEs, so a default exploit and impact weights of 5.0 are factored into their scores.

A07:2021-Identification and Authentication Failures was previously Broken Authentication and is sliding down from the second position, and now includes CWEs that are more related to identification failures. This category is still an integral part of the Top 10, but the increased availability of standardized frameworks seems to be helping.

A08:2021-Software and Data Integrity Failures is a new category for 2021, focusing on making assumptions related to software updates, critical data, and CI/CD pipelines without verifying integrity. One of the highest weighted impacts from Common Vulnerability and Exposures/Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVE/CVSS) data mapped to the 10 CWEs in this category. Insecure Deserialization from 2017 is now a part of this larger category.

A09:2021-Security Logging and Monitoring Failures was previously Insufficient Logging & Monitoring and is added from the industry survey (#3), moving up from #10 previously. This category is expanded to include more types of failures, is challenging to test for, and isn't well represented in the CVE/CVSS data. However, failures in this category can directly impact visibility, incident alerting, and forensics.

A10:2021-Server-Side Request Forgery is added from the Top 10 community survey (#1). The data shows a relatively low incidence rate with above average testing coverage, along with above-average ratings for Exploit and Impact potential. This category represents the scenario where the security community members are telling us this is important, even though it's not illustrated in the data at this time.