XIPS : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind XPath injection in database-centric web services environment.

Web services have become a powerful interface for backend database systems which provides many services such as automatic purchasing, inventory tracking and clinical management. However, along the benefit of Web services, comes a serious risk of security breaches. Most Web services are deployed with...

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Main Authors: Asmawi, Aziah, Affendey, Lilly Suriani, Udzir, Nur Izura, Mahmod, Ramlan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Advanced Institute of Convergence Information Technology 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30654/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30654/1/XIPS.pdf
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author Asmawi, Aziah
Affendey, Lilly Suriani
Udzir, Nur Izura
Mahmod, Ramlan
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Affendey, Lilly Suriani
Udzir, Nur Izura
Mahmod, Ramlan
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description Web services have become a powerful interface for backend database systems which provides many services such as automatic purchasing, inventory tracking and clinical management. However, along the benefit of Web services, comes a serious risk of security breaches. Most Web services are deployed with security flaws and these vulnerabilities expose them to XPath (XML Path Language) injection. This kind of attack can cause serious damage to the database at the back end of Web services. This paper proposes XIPS, a prevention mechanism against Blind XPath injection attacks within Web services environment. The prevention mechanism employs the model-based approach to detect malicious queries and thwart them before they are executed on the Web services back end database. This approach uses run time monitoring to check on the dynamically-generated queries and compares them against the statistically-built model. The employment of the XIPS architecture should be able to prevent Web services from any kinds of XPath injection attacks.
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spelling upm-306542015-09-07T03:41:32Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30654/ XIPS : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind XPath injection in database-centric web services environment. Asmawi, Aziah Affendey, Lilly Suriani Udzir, Nur Izura Mahmod, Ramlan Web services have become a powerful interface for backend database systems which provides many services such as automatic purchasing, inventory tracking and clinical management. However, along the benefit of Web services, comes a serious risk of security breaches. Most Web services are deployed with security flaws and these vulnerabilities expose them to XPath (XML Path Language) injection. This kind of attack can cause serious damage to the database at the back end of Web services. This paper proposes XIPS, a prevention mechanism against Blind XPath injection attacks within Web services environment. The prevention mechanism employs the model-based approach to detect malicious queries and thwart them before they are executed on the Web services back end database. This approach uses run time monitoring to check on the dynamically-generated queries and compares them against the statistically-built model. The employment of the XIPS architecture should be able to prevent Web services from any kinds of XPath injection attacks. Advanced Institute of Convergence Information Technology 2013-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30654/1/XIPS.pdf Asmawi, Aziah and Affendey, Lilly Suriani and Udzir, Nur Izura and Mahmod, Ramlan (2013) XIPS : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind XPath injection in database-centric web services environment. International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology, 5 (10). pp. 69-77. ISSN 2005-8039; ESSN:2233-9337
spellingShingle Asmawi, Aziah
Affendey, Lilly Suriani
Udzir, Nur Izura
Mahmod, Ramlan
XIPS : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind XPath injection in database-centric web services environment.
title XIPS : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind XPath injection in database-centric web services environment.
title_full XIPS : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind XPath injection in database-centric web services environment.
title_fullStr XIPS : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind XPath injection in database-centric web services environment.
title_full_unstemmed XIPS : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind XPath injection in database-centric web services environment.
title_short XIPS : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind XPath injection in database-centric web services environment.
title_sort xips : a model-based prevention mechanism for preventing blind xpath injection in database-centric web services environment.
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30654/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30654/1/XIPS.pdf