Tuesday, April 20, 2010

OWASP Top Ten 2010 Released

 

On April 19, 2010, final version of the OWASP Top 10 for 2010 has been released. You can find more information about it at OWASP Top 10 2010 Press Release and OWASP Top Ten Project.

The OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks for 2010 are:

  • A1: Injection
  • A2: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • A3: Broken Authentication and Session Management
  • A4: Insecure Direct Object References
  • A5: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
  • A6: Security Misconfiguration
  • A7: Insecure Cryptographic Storage
  • A8: Failure to Restrict URL Access
  • A9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
  • A10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards

The Web Application Security Consortium provides Threat Classification Taxonomy Cross Reference View which gives a clear mapping between WASC Threat Classification, MITRE's Common Weakness Enumeration, SANS Top 25 and OWASP Top Ten.

Regards,

LN