Alice works as a Java developer in Fygo software Services Ltd. He is given the responsibility to design a bookstore website for one of their clients. This website is supposed to store articles in .pdf format. Alice is advised by his superior to design ArticlesList.jsp page in such a way that it should display a list of all the articles in one page and should send a selected filename as a query string to redirect users to articledetails.jsp page. Alice wrote the following code on page load to read the file name. String myfilename = request.getParameter("filename"); String txtFileNameVariable = myfilename; String locationVariable = request.getServletContext().getRealPath("/"); String PathVariable = ""; PathVariable = locationVariable + txtFileNameVariable; BufferedInputStream bufferedInputStream = null; Path filepath = Paths.get(PathVariable); After reviewing this code, his superior pointed out the security mistake in the code and instructed him not repeat the same in future. Can you point the type of vulnerability that may exist in the above code?
In a certain website, a secure login feature is designed to prevent brute -force attack by implementing account lockout mechanism. The account will automatically be locked after five failed attempts. This feature will not allow the users to login to the website until their account is unlocked. However, there is a possibility that this security feature can be abused to perform attack.
Which of the risk assessment model is used to rate the threats -based risk to the application during threat modeling process?
Which of the following Spring Security Framework configuration setting will ensure the protection from session fixation attacks by not allowing authenticated user to login again?
Alice, a security engineer, was performing security testing on the application. He found that users can view the website structure and file names. As per the standard security practices, this can pose a serious security risk as attackers can access hidden script files in your directory. Which of the following will mitigate the above security risk?
Sam, an application security engineer working in INFRA INC., was conducting a secure code review on an application developed in Jav a. He found that the developer has used a piece of code as shown in the following screenshot. Identify the security mistakes that the developer has coded?
