OWASP Top 10 2024: Complete Security Guide
Comprehensive breakdown of the latest OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and how to protect your applications against them.
The OWASP Top 10 represents the most critical security risks to web applications. In 2024, the landscape has evolved with new threats and attack vectors.
1. Broken Access Control
Access control enforces policy such that users cannot act outside of their intended permissions. Failures typically lead to unauthorized information disclosure, modification, or destruction of all data or performing a business function outside the user's limits.
2. Cryptographic Failures
Previously known as Sensitive Data Exposure, this category focuses on failures related to cryptography (or lack thereof). This often leads to exposure of sensitive data.
3. Injection
Injection flaws, such as SQL, NoSQL, OS, and LDAP injection, occur when untrusted data is sent to an interpreter as part of a command or query.
4. Insecure Design
Insecure design is a broad category representing different weaknesses, expressed as "missing or ineffective control design."
5. Security Misconfiguration
Security misconfiguration is commonly a result of insecure default configurations, incomplete or ad hoc configurations, open cloud storage, misconfigured HTTP headers, and verbose error messages containing sensitive information.
Prevention Strategies
Stay vigilant and keep your applications secure!