| DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. When this occurs, the organization either cannot accomplish its mission or must operate at degraded capacity. To reduce the possibility or effect of a DoS, the application server must employ defined security safeguards. These safeguards will be determined by the placement of the application server and the type of applications being hosted within the application server framework.
Allowing hosted applications to execute SQL commands that create tables, change permissions on objects, create stored procedures, or drop objects allow an attacker to put the hosted application into a posture where it may not work correctly, display error messages that contains sensitive data that was not tested for during development, or cause an application to be unable to authenticate users. Any of these situations puts the system into a situation where the user is denied service to the application. Giving applications only those SQL commands needed to operate on data reduces this risk. |
