CWE-1060: Excessive Number of Inefficient Server-Side Data Accesses
Learn about CWE-1060 (Excessive Number of Inefficient Server-Side Data Accesses), its security impact, exploitation methods, and prevention guidelines.
What is Excessive Number of Inefficient Server-Side Data Accesses?
• Overview: This vulnerability occurs when a product makes too many inefficient server-side data queries, often due to not using optimized data processing techniques like stored procedures. This can slow down performance and potentially open up vulnerabilities if attackers can reach the relevant code.
• Exploitation Methods:
- Attackers can exploit this by deliberately triggering inefficient queries to degrade performance.
- Common attack patterns include Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, where excessive queries overwhelm the server, causing slowdowns or crashes.
• Security Impact:
- Direct consequences include reduced performance and potential service unavailability.
- Potential cascading effects might involve increased server load, leading to other vulnerabilities being exploited.
- Business impact includes loss of customer trust, reduced productivity, and potential financial losses due to downtime.
• Prevention Guidelines:
- Specific code-level fixes involve optimizing data access patterns, and using stored procedures or prepared statements.
- Security best practices include limiting the number of queries in a single operation and using efficient query techniques.
- Recommended tools and frameworks involve database profiling tools to identify inefficient queries and ORM frameworks that optimize data access.
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Technical Details
Likelihood of Exploit: Not specified
Affected Languages: Not specified
Affected Technologies: Not specified