Rate Limiting Owasp

Rate Limiting Owasp. OWASP API #4When Is This An Issue?Preventing Resource and RateLimiting IssuesLack of Resources & Rate Limiting is when the API does not restrict the number or frequency of requests from a particular API client So an API client can make thousands or even more API calls per second or request hundred or thousands of data records at once and the server will still try to fulfill these requests This sounds pretty okay right? In a lot of cases the lack of resources and ratelimiting is not an issue But sometimes they could allow attackers to do something more First of all a lack of ratelimiting can impact the performance of the API servers and allow attackers to launch DoS attacks When a single client or multiple clients makes too many requests at once requests from those clients can overwhelm the server’s ability to process requests and in turn make the service slow or unavailable for other users Another issue is that a lack of ratelimiting can lead to bruteforcing attacks on authentication endpoints and on endpoints with Broken Object Level Authorization For instance if there is no limit on how many times a user can submit login requests malicious attackers can bruteforce users’ passwords by trying to log in with different passwords until they succeed On the other hand if the application suffers from Broken Object Level Authorization attackers can use a nonrate limiting endpoint to bruteforce the IDs that point to sensitive data Finally the lack of rate limiting can help attackers exfiltrate sensitive data faster if So how can you prevent these issues from happening? You need to restrict users’ access to resources! But that is easier said than done The appropriate rate and resource limit for each functionality often needs to be different For instance the rate limit for authentication endpoints should be much lower to prevent bruteforcing and password guessing attacks The first thing you can do is to determine what is “normal usage” for that particular functionality Then block users whose request resources at a much higher rate than usual Determining the risk of rate limit issues is all about where the vulnerability is located in the application’s context Next time let’s look at another API issue that would also mean different things in different contexts OWASP API #5 Broken Function Level Authorization and how to determine its impact on the application Next time why you should audit sensitive functionalities in your APIs first Author Vickie Li.

This includes implementing limits on how often a client can call the API in a given timeframe as well as “[adding] proper serverside validation for query string and request body parameters specifically the one that controls the number of records to be returned in the response” [OWASP Report] and defining and enforcing file uploads text input field size and length limits to essentially set limits on the number of resources that a user can access and use via the API.

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Resources & Rate Limit in API Security (OWASP API42019) API Security OWASP Compliance In this article we are going to discuss Resource & Rate Limiter from security perspective Other usage certain services might want to limit operations based on the tier of their customer’s service and thus create a revenue model based on limit business can have default limits for all the API’s service offers.

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API12019 Broken Object Level Authorization APIs tend to expose endpoints that handle object identifiers creating a wide attack surface Level Access Control issue API22019 Broken User Authentication Authentication mechanisms are often implemented incorrectly allowing attackers to compromise authentication tokens or to exploit implementation flaws to assume other user’s identities temporarily or permanently API32019 Excessive Data Exposure Looking forward to generic implementations developers tend to expose all object properties without considering their individual sensitivity relying on clients to perform the data filtering before displaying it to the user API42019 Lack of Resources & Rate Limiting Quite often APIs do not impose any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be requested by the client/user.