Top 10-2017 Details About Risk Factors

The following table presents a summary of the 2017 Top 10 Application Security Risks, and the risk factors we have assigned to each risk. These factors were determined based on the available statistics and the experience of the OWASP Top 10 team. To understand these risks for a particular application or organization, you must consider your own specific threat agents and business impacts. Even egregious software weaknesses may not present a serious risk if there are no threat agents in a position to perform the necessary attack or the business impact is negligible for the assets involved.

The Top 10 covers a lot of ground, but there are many other risks you should consider and evaluate in your organization. Some of these have appeared in previous versions of the Top 10, and others have not, including new attack techniques that are being identified all the time. Other important application security risks (in alphabetical order) that you should also consider include:
 * Clickjacking ( CAPEC-103 )
 * Denial of Service ( CWE-400 ) (Was 2004 Top 10 – Entry 2004-A9 )
 * Deserialization of Untrusted Data ( CWE-502 ) For defenses, see: OWASP Deserialization Cheat Sheet
 * xpression Language Injection ( CWE-917 )
 * Information Leakage ( CWE-209 ) and Improper Error Handling ( CWE-388 ) (was part of 2007 Top 10 – Entry 2007-A6 )
 * Hotlinking Third Party Content ( CWE-829 )
 * Malicious File Execution ( CWE-434 ) (Was 2007 Top 10 – Entry 2007-A3 )
 * Mass Assignment ( CWE-915 )
 * Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CWE-918)
 * Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards ( CWE-601 ) (Was 2013 Top 10 – Entry 2013-A10 )
 * User Privacy ( CWE-359 ) For defenses, see: OWASP Top 10 Privacy Risks Project