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Assessment Title
Rule Text
ColdFusion must provide security extensions to extend the SOAP protocol and provide secure authentication when accessing sensitive data.
Description
Discussion Text
Application servers may provide a web services capability that could be leveraged to allow remote access to sensitive application data.
Many web services utilize SOAP, which in turn utilizes XML and HTTP as a transport. Natively, SOAP does not provide security protections. As such, the application server must provide security extensions to enhance SOAP capabilities to ensure that secure authentication mechanisms are employed to protect sensitive data. The ws-security suite is a widely used and acceptable SOAP security extension.
ColdFusion offers SOAP capabilities but does not offer any type of security for these services. In order to extend the security of the SOAP protocol, an administrator must install the ws-security suite to enhance SOAP through Java Web Services and configure the ws-security features within the new object. This new object then becomes the wrapper for the SOAP communication, securing the sensitive data.
Many web services utilize SOAP, which in turn utilizes XML and HTTP as a transport. Natively, SOAP does not provide security protections. As such, the application server must provide security extensions to enhance SOAP capabilities to ensure that secure authentication mechanisms are employed to protect sensitive data. The ws-security suite is a widely used and acceptable SOAP security extension.
ColdFusion offers SOAP capabilities but does not offer any type of security for these services. In order to extend the security of the SOAP protocol, an administrator must install the ws-security suite to enhance SOAP through Java Web Services and configure the ws-security features within the new object. This new object then becomes the wrapper for the SOAP communication, securing the sensitive data.
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