Applications designed to address malware issues and/or enforce policy pertaining to organizational use of mobile code must implement detection and inspection mechanisms to identify unauthorized mobile code

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-35613	SRG-APP-000206-AS-NA	SV-46900r1_rule		Medium

Description
Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously. Mobile code technologies include Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, PDF, Postscript, Shockwave movies, Flash animations, and VBScript. Usage restrictions and implementation guidance apply to both the selection and use of mobile code installed on organizational servers and mobile code downloaded and executed on individual workstations. Policy and procedures related to mobile code address preventing the development, acquisition, or introduction of unacceptable mobile code within the information system. This requirement is NA. Application servers are not designed to address malware issues.

Description

Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for the code to cause damage to the system if used maliciously. Mobile code technologies include Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, PDF, Postscript, Shockwave movies, Flash animations, and VBScript. Usage restrictions and implementation guidance apply to both the selection and use of mobile code installed on organizational servers and mobile code downloaded and executed on individual workstations. Policy and procedures related to mobile code address preventing the development, acquisition, or introduction of unacceptable mobile code within the information system. This requirement is NA. Application servers are not designed to address malware issues.

STIG	Date
Application Server Security Requirements Guide	2013-01-08

Details

Check Text ( C-43956r1_chk )
This requirement is NA for the AS SRG.

Fix Text (F-40154r1_fix)
The requirement is NA. No fix is required.