CWE-11: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Creating Debug Binary
Official CWE-11 CWE context with Glexia analysis, remediation guidance, related CVEs, and ATT&CK context.
Glexia's Take
CWE-11: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Creating Debug Binary
ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Creating Debug Binary represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.
Executive Impact
- Confidentiality: Read Application Data: Attackers can leverage the additional information they gain from debugging output to mount attacks targeted on the framework, database, or other resources used by the application.
Developer Pattern
CWE-11 is the kind of defect developers can usually prevent with explicit validation, safer framework defaults, and tests that exercise hostile input or unsafe state transitions.
Confidence
high confidence from CWE-11, 4.20.
Official CWE Definition
CWE-11: ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Creating Debug Binary
Debugging messages help attackers learn about the system and plan a form of attack.
ASP .NET applications can be configured to produce debug binaries. These binaries give detailed debugging messages and should not be used in production environments. Debug binaries are meant to be used in a development or testing environment and can pose a security risk if they are deployed to production.
Developer And Remediation Guidance
How teams prevent and detect this weakness
Causes
- The file web.config contains the debug mode setting. Setting debug to "true" will let the browser display debugging information. Change the debug mode to false when the application is deployed into production.
Remediation
- System Configuration: Avoid releasing debug binaries into the production environment. Change the debug mode to false when the application is deployed into production.
Detection
- Automated Static Analysis: Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.)
Mappings
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