Category:OWASP Flash Security Project

Overview
OWASP Flash Security Project is an open project for sharing a knowledge base in order to raise awareness around the subject of Flash applications security.

Goals
The OWASP Flash Security Project aims is to produce guidelines and tools around Flash Security

Tools
Flash security testing SWFIntruder

Third-party Libraries
AS3Crypto - An ActionScript 3.0 cryptography library.

as3corelib - An Adobe sponsored Google Code project that contains ActionScript 3.0 implementations of WS-Security, SHA, MD5 and other utilities.

flash-validators - An Adobe sponsored Google Code project that contains ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0 data validation libraries.

White Papers
[1] Flash Parameter Injection pdf, IBM Rational Application Security Team,, 24th September 2008, NYC, NY (USA)

[2] Testing Flash Applications ppt, Stefano Di Paola, Owasp Appsec 2007, 17th May 2007, Milan (Italy).

[3] Finding Vulnerabilities in Flash Applications ppt, Stefano Di Paola, Owasp Appsec 2007, 15th November 2007, San Jose CA (USA)

Articles
[1] Creating more secure SWF web applications This Adobe Developer Center article discusses secure ActionScript programming practices.

[2] Understanding the security changes in Flash Player 10 beta - This Adobe Developer Center article describes the new changes that affect security in the Flash Player 10 beta. This includes information on changes to socket timing, policy file strictness, upload and download, RTMFP and full screen mode.

[3] Preparing for the Flash Player 9 April 2008 Security Update - This Adobe Developer Center article describes the new mitigations for DNS Rebinding (socket policy files), cross-site flashing and the introduction of cross-domain header meta-policies to help address attacks such as the UPnP attack.

[4] Security Changes in Flash Player 9 This Adobe Developer Center article describes the important changes that need to be made to existing crossdomain.xml and socket policy files. All websites that use cross-domain or socket policy files will need to implement these changes in order to be compatible with Adobe's new format. After the implementation of Phase II, Adobe will no longer support the old format.

Project Contributors
The Flash Security project is run by Stefano Di Paola. He can be contacted at stefano.dipaola AT mindedsecurity.com.

Project Sponsors
The Flash Security project is sponsored by http://www.owasp.org/images/f/fe/MindedLogo.PNG