Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (OWA1769633044)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the OWASP® Foundation breach identified under incident ID OWA1769633044.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of OWASP® Foundation's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/owasp, the number of followers: 288043, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 648 employees

After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 762 and after the incident was 760 with a difference of -2 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.

In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on OWASP® Foundation and their customers.

OWASP ZAP Project recently reported "Memory Leak in JavaScript Engine Affecting Active Scans in OWASP ZAP", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

The OWASP ZAP project has uncovered a memory leak in its embedded JavaScript engine, which became more widespread following a recent update.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting OWASP ZAP active scan functionality.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Disabling the problematic JavaScript scan rule or OpenAPI add-on, increasing JVM heap size (temporary measure), splitting large OpenAPI definitions into smaller scan scopes, and began remediation that includes Hotfix released to address the memory leak, while recovery efforts such as Update ZAP and its add-ons via the ZAP Marketplace continue.

The case underscores how and recommending next steps like Update ZAP and its add-ons, disable the problematic JavaScript scan rule or OpenAPI add-on if necessary, increase JVM heap size as a temporary measure, or split large OpenAPI definitions into smaller scan scopes.

Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.