Applications designed to enforce policy pertaining to organizational use of mobile code must prevent the download and execution of prohibited mobile code.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-35615	SRG-APP-000209-AS-NA	SV-46902r1_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. This requirement relates to client systems and not application servers. The AS does not enforce policy regarding mobile code.

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. This requirement relates to client systems and not application servers. The AS does not enforce policy regarding mobile code.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-43958r1_chk )
This requirement is NA for the AS SRG.

Fix Text (F-40156r1_fix)
The requirement is NA. No fix is required.