The web server must restrict a consistent inbound source IP for the entire user session.
Overview
Finding ID
Version
Rule ID
IA Controls
Severity
V-264361
SRG-APP-000219-WSR-000191
SV-264361r1067566_rule
Medium
Description
Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false information into sessions.
Application communication sessions are protected utilizing transport encryption protocols, such as TLS. TLS provides web applications with a means to be able to authenticate user sessions and encrypt application traffic. Session authentication can be single (one way) or mutual (two way) in nature. Single authentication authenticates the server for the client, whereas mutual authentication provides a means for both the client and the server to authenticate each other.
This requirement addresses communications protection at the application session, versus the network packet, and establishes grounds for confidence at both ends of communications sessions in ongoing identities of other parties and in the validity of information transmitted. Depending on the required degree of confidentiality and integrity, web services will require the use of TLS mutual authentication (two-way/bidirectional).