Security flaws must be fixed or addressed in the project plan.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-70383	APSC-DV-003210	SV-85005r1_rule		Medium

Description
This requirement is meant to apply to developers or organizations that are doing application development work. Application development efforts include the creation of a project plan to track and organize the development work. If security flaws are not tracked within the project plan, it is possible the flaws will be overlooked and included in a release. Tracking flaws in the project plan will help identify code elements to be changed as well as the requested change.

Description

This requirement is meant to apply to developers or organizations that are doing application development work. Application development efforts include the creation of a project plan to track and organize the development work. If security flaws are not tracked within the project plan, it is possible the flaws will be overlooked and included in a release. Tracking flaws in the project plan will help identify code elements to be changed as well as the requested change.

STIG	Date
Application Security and Development Security Technical Implementation Guide	2020-06-12

Details

Check Text ( C-70837r1_chk )
This requirement is meant to apply to developers or organizations that are doing application development work. If the organization managing the application is not performing or managing the development of the application the requirement is not applicable. Ask the application representative to demonstrate how security flaws are integrated into the project plan. If security flaws are not addressed in the project plan or there is no process to introduce security flaws into the project plan, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-70837r1_chk )

This requirement is meant to apply to developers or organizations that are doing application development work. If the organization managing the application is not performing or managing the development of the application the requirement is not applicable.

Ask the application representative to demonstrate how security flaws are integrated into the project plan.

If security flaws are not addressed in the project plan or there is no process to introduce security flaws into the project plan, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-76619r1_fix)
Address security flaws within a project plan to ensure they are tracked and addressed by management.