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IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSRJCE) ISSN: 2278-0661 Volume 1, Issue 4 (May-June 2012), PP 48-53 www.iosrjournals.

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ATLIST Method: Exploits Vulnerability in SOA


V. M. Vasava1, Prof. S. P. Abhang2
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(CSE (Soft Engg.), MIT Aurangabad (MS), India) 2(CSE, MIT Aurangabad (MS), India)

ABSTRACT: The numbers of reported day to day increase Vulnerabilities in operating system and web
applications. Vulnerability analysis approaches done several manual tasks so its error prone and costly. Now, ATLIST is a new vulnerability analysis method to detect victims or weakness on client activities in single machine, shared resources and communication network. That methodology had to detect weakness or vulnerability through vulnerability detection algorithm. So it dynamically checking of vulnerability & improved transferability. Our paper focuses in SOA web security and operating system can help industry to reduce business impact, to gain higher accuracy in vulnerability detection, and to commit fast responsiveness, to provide more traceable guidelines for the security analyst.

Keywords: Vulnerability Analysis, Vulnerability Detection Algorithm, ATLIST Tree, Vulnerability


Classification, SOA Business Process.

I.

Introduction

Vulnerability analysis has become one of the hottest fields within the computer security market which is service oriented architecture (SOA) on business processes. In SOA, Vulnerabilities contain in operating system and web applications. Vulnerability had been already identified in SOA and its highly impossible to predict all of them. A Symantec Security threat report published in april2011 points out that high rate of web based attack or operating system and also increase attacks in web based 2010. So we need Vulnerability analysis approaches involve several manual tasks that much error prone and costly. Vulnerability management tools needs patterns to find or monitor vulnerabilities at different levels. Such patterns have to be derived from vulnerability types. Existing analysis methods such as attack trees and FMEA result was not well good and provide little guidance during the analysis. Now, we proposed ATLIST, a new vulnerability analysis method. The name stands for attentive listener as the method was developed during and for the analysis of SOA service orchestrations layer. ATLIST was designed to make use of the central SOA notions, namely re-usability, exibility, and extensive use of standards. It improved transferability better than previous methods by guiding the analysis with a set of analysis elements. In this paper, We mainly focuses SOA web security and operating system can help industry to minimize business impact, to achieve higher accuracy in vulnerability detection, and to commit fast responsiveness. Vulnerability analysis also supports avoiding, finding, fixings and monitoring vulnerabilities at dynamic time. So it becomes creativity and experience might also be find new types of vulnerabilities.

II.

Proposed System

Our recent analysis of several sources such as confirms that new types of vulnerabilities are very rare. The different types of established web technologies, SOA-specific standards to violate security policy due to attackers. To maintain by, we propose ATLIST, a new vulnerability analysis method. The name stands for attentive listener as the method was developed during and for the analysis of SOA service orchestrations layers. ATLIST was designed to make use of the central SOA notions, namely re-usability, flexibility, and extensive use of standards. It facilitates the detection of known vulnerability types, and enables the derivation of vulnerability patterns for tool support. ATLIST is applicable to business processes composed of services as well as to single services. ATLIST Method is used to so many benefits to that business processes application as well as web services. ATLIST Method explicitly builds upon the vulnerability knowledge extracted from various sources. It focuses on completely new vulnerability types of patterns. ATLIST offers better transferability than previous methods by guiding the analysis with a set of analysis elements. These elements are instantiated for the system at hand, so that an ATLIST tree can be build in a guided and repeatable manner. ATLIST Method can be traceable to vulnerability through trees so it is not constructed be refining the root node, but by composing pre-defined analysis elements. These elements are: www.iosrjournals.org 48 | Page

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A. Elements of ATLIST Method Point Of View: The specific POV of the Analysis, e.g. Business Processes or The Operating System. Attack Effect: The final effect an attacker causes when exploiting vulnerability, defined from The POV. Active Component: The first component in which the vulnerability is POV. exploitable, again defined From the

Involve Standard: The standard the execution or misuse of which enables the exploit, e.g., XML. Triggering Property: The property of the involve standard an attacker exploits, defined from POV. E.g. Order of flags. B. Construct ATLIST Tree

Fig.1. ATLIST Tree In the above scenario, JavaScript is irrelevant regarding the database engine itself. And also not support properties in each standard. (e.g. size of command for JavaScript). The various combinations of components, standards and properties. Which is marked of vulnerability? For example, if a firewall protects the web server from complex or huge TCP messages, the corresponding size of msg. It should be protected well marked. The remaining paths have been checked about their exploitability. So many tools are available they represent a structured container for the vulnerability details which will be further developed during post processing. Precondition: The circumstances under which an attacker will likely be able to exploit the vulnerability. Postcondition: The specic changes to the system caused by the attack, also, knowledge or abilities the attacker has gained. Test case: How to check whether the vulnerability is actually exploitable. Protection: Measures that protect against exploits of this vulnerability, or, even better, prevent the vulnerability from being introduced into the system. Search pattern: A formal vulnerability description to be used by scanning tools if possible, one pattern each for detection before, at, and after runtime.

III.

Vulnerability Analysis

The terms fault, failure, and vulnerability are to concern based on internet security or threats. Existing methods such as Fault or Attack tree, FMEA trees which is not well guided to security analyst. Day to day by using commuter needed for security. So here we classified and analysis vulnerability in OSVDB, NVD. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) lists 24 types of web application vulnerabilities. The Top OSVDB & CWE with classes with percentages entries as follows.

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Vulnerability Input Manipulation Information Disclosure Denial of Service Authentication Management Race Condition Cryptographic Misconguration Hijacking Infrastructure Vulnerability SQL Injection Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Buffer Errors Input Validation Code Injection Link Following Format String Vulnerability Race Conditions OS Command Injections Percentage (%) 65.53 16.62 12.19 1.67 1.35 1.28 1.04 0.18 0.14 Percentage (%) 17.85 14.58 12.88 7.98 7.8 2.26 0.59 0.53 0.16

Tab.1. OSVDB & CWE classes Percentage with Entries A. Vulnerability Detection Algorithm Fig. 2 shows the vulnerability detection Algorithm which is the core of our approach. This algorithm infers privileged nodes from the source code of a web application and identifies nodes that are not properly protected. DETECTVULS (Speca, Specb, reg) 1 Vuls 2 nfa REG2NFA(reg) 3 dfa NFA2DFA(nfa) 4 Na BUILDSITEMAP(Speca, dfa) 5 Nb BUILDSITEMAP(Specb,dfa) 6 Privileged Na\Nb 7 for each n in Privileged 8 do <cfga,Rai> GETCFG(n,Speca) 9 <cfgb,Rbi> GETCFG(n,Specb) 10 if SIZEOF (cfga) = SIZEOF (cfgb) and Ra = Rb 11 then Vuls Vuls{n} 12 return Vuls Fig.2. Vulnerability Detection Algo. Let Speca and Specb denote specifications for role a and role b respectively. Initially, the set of vulnerable nodes Vuls is empty. First, this algorithm parses the regular expression reg, which captures HTML tags where a link might appear, into a non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA). Then, the algorithm transforms the NFA into a deterministic finite automaton (DFA). Either NFA or DFA could be used for extracting links, and we chose DFA for its advantage on performance and the ease of FA state management. An example of XML injection to include insertion of full XML structures: <users> <uname>vmv</uname> <pwd>admin</pwd> <uid>500</uid> www.iosrjournals.org 50 | Page

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<mail>vmv@exmaple3.com</mail></user><user><uname>Hacker</uname><pwd>l33tist</pwd><uid>0</uid > <mail>hacker@exmaple.net</mail> </user> </users> In this example a new user (Hacker) will be inserted into the table with user ID 0. In many cases with XML applications, the second user ID instance will override the first. This results in the injected new user 'Hacker' being logged in with userid=0 (which often is used as the administrator uid).

IV.

Implementation In SOA

In SOA reference model, we assume the use of BPEL, SOAP, and Web Service Description Language (WSDL). BPEL is used to describe and execute the business processes, messages are exchanged through SOAP, and web service interfaces are dened in WSDL.we dene only two active components, namely the BPEL engine and XML parsers. Specic services such as database wrappers are just one example of how the analysis could be extended. Based on the POV and the active components, the denition of involved standards is straight forward. We restrict the selection to XML, SOAP, BPEL, and WSDL for this presentation. Finally, the triggering properties amount, size, order, and content, plus we include nesting as typical property of XML.

Fig. 3.ATLIST tree for the attack effect steer process. In The above Example, we pick the attack effect steer processes. ATLIST tree in Fig. is built by appending the active components, then the involved standards, and then the triggering properties. Now, what is the path from leaf (triggering property) to the root (attack effect) actually indicates vulnerability? The amount and size of XML tags and SOAP messages can lead to DoS attacks and not the remote control of processes, so we mark those leafs as inapplicable. Likewise, the amount and size of BPEL scripts and WSDL descriptions are marked as irrelevant regarding the attack effect of steering the process. We have set up a SOA testing environment in which we have veried that through this attack, a business process running on Apaches ODE or Oracles BPEL engine can be steered. Similar attacks are described in Lindstroms report on web service attacks. The order of SOAP messages is important as well. If the attacker sends a faked SOAP message to the BPEL engine before the original reply of a service arrives, the BPEL engine will base its branching decision on the fake message. While the order of BPEL scripts seems irrelevant to the steer process attack, the order of WSDL descriptions might be relevant if an attacker can, e.g., overwrite namespace denitions by supplying additional WSDL descriptions. Of course, the content of XML tags, SOAP messages, BPEL scripts, and WSDL descriptions is crucial to the execution of the business process. Not all alterations of these entities would allow an attacker to steer the process, though. For example, a malformed entry will likely cause an error and stop the process, which is a different attack effect. SOAP action spoong shows how a process can be steered through the content of SOAP messages. A. Test Cases The tester has to make a list of all input fields whose values could be used in crafting a SQL query, including the hidden fields of POST requests and then test them separately, trying to interfere with the query and to generate an error.

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Input Validation The server side input validation can check in any languages like .NET, PHP, ASP, JSP, SCRIPT. It explicitly checks input fields from user at dynamically. Constrain Input To constrain form field input received through server controls, it checks RegularExpressionValidators. For Example. JavaScript in HTML using Input validation. <script type="text/javascript"> { var strength = document.getElementById('strength'); var strongRegex = new RegExp("^(?=.{8,})(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[0-9])(?=.*\\W).*$", "g"); var pwd = document.getElementById("password"); if (pwd.value.length==0) { strength.innerHTML = 'Type Password'; } else if (false == enoughRegex.test(pwd.value)) { strength.innerHTML = 'More Characters'; } else if (strongRegex.test(pwd.value)) { strength.innerHTML = '<span style="color:green">Strong!</span>'; } else { strength.innerHTML = '<span style="color:red">Weak!</span>'; alert("Authentication Vulnerability Found...For Strong Password Use [A-Z),[a-z],[1-9] and special Symbols"); } } </script> Standard SQL Injection Testing XML Injection The very first test usually consists of adding a single quote (') or a semicolon (;) to the field under test. Consider the following SQL Query: SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Usrname=$Usrname AND Pwd=$pwd A Similar Query is generally used from the web application in order to authenticate a user. If the username and password are authorized then the user is allowed to login to the system otherwise denied for the access. Suppose we insert the following username and password: $Username=1 or 1=1 $pwd=1 or 1=1 The Query will be SELECT * FROM Users WHERE Usrname=1 OR 1=1 AND Pwd=1 OR 1=1 If we passed to the parameter value to send server through GET Method and if the domain of the vulnerable web site is www.gmail.com, the request that will carry out be. www.gmail.com/index.php? Usrname=1%20or%201%20=%201& pwd=11%20or%201%20=%201 After that we analysis of query, It condition must true for (OR1=1).In this Way the system has authenticated the user without knowing the username and password. B. Comparison of Vulnerability Analysis The analysis guidance offered by attack trees, FMEA, and ATLIST. Attack trees and FMEA offer little guidance. FMEA tree are top-down approach and Fault/Attack Tree are bottom-up Approach. They only suggest an analysis direction. ATLIST Method is a broad analysis through elements to top-down or bottom-up approach and provide guidance to Security Analyst. ATLIST Provides Distributes Vulnerability scanning tasks and report to stack a holder which provides administrator access to the scanning system for use their network segment. It also allows tracking of all vulnerabilities across entire network and multiple sites.

V.

Conclusion

ATLIST Methodology will be checked Log-Based Audit .So it can be make automated vulnerability analysis. It will be used to pinpoint the vulnerabilities that resulting from switching a warehousing system to a SOA. ATLIST supports the analysis either explicit ows or implicit ows. ATLIST Method will be detecting vulnerability using black box or white box testing methods. ATLIST Method derived Vulnerability details from www.iosrjournals.org 52 | Page

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patterns to subtypes and also helpful to business level application, WSDL Services. Web services can be effectively used to participate in and set up business-to-business (B2B) transactions. They are great at exposing software functionality to customers and integrating heterogeneous platforms. This approach achieves higher accuracy in malicious data detection, and fast responsiveness in SOA based Business processes.

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