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Protecting App Server from outside entities

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    Protecting App Server from outside entities

    Web app running 6699-5464 standard app server on a AWS EC2 instance (with AWS load balancer).

    I've already submitted a service ticket to AWS support but I thought I'd reach out here too.

    I'm getting a ton of, what appears to me, hits from outside sources trying to exploit possible vulnerabilities. This is causing what looks like a lot of 500 (and 404) errors.

    Here is the xbasic stack log...
    Code:
    Component not found: 404_ErrorThu May 21 08:22:07 2020

Thread: AppServerWorker8
Request URI: /latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document
Script: " /latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document"
Line: 38
?x__404_Error.Output.Head.Title
Property not found
x__404_Error.Output.Head.Title subelement not found.
Execution Stack:
0#1 evaluate_shared_private(
0#39 OOhttpdServerClientMIME(ptemp,"AppServerMain")
0#2 A5WCallResult = evaluate_a5w_to_response(page_contents,Response,quote(" " + eval_settings.global.Request.ScriptName),eval_settings,EVALUATE_A5W_TIMEOUT,RequestBundle.RequestInfo.Filename.Path)
0#38
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Component not found: 500_ERRORThu May 21 08:22:07 2020

Thread: AppServerWorker8
Request URI: /latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document
Script: " /latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document"
Line: 38
?x__500_ERROR.Output.Head.Title
Property not found
x__500_ERROR.Output.Head.Title subelement not found.
Execution Stack:
0#1 evaluate_shared_private(
0#39 OOhttpdServerClientMIME(ptemp,"AppServerMain")
0#2 A5WCallResult = evaluate_a5w_to_response(page_contents,Response,quote(" " + eval_settings.global.Request.ScriptName),eval_settings,EVALUATE_A5W_TIMEOUT,RequestBundle.RequestInfo.Filename.Path)
0#38
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Component not found: 500_ERRORThu May 21 08:22:07 2020

Thread: AppServerWorker8
Request URI: /latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document
Script: " /latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document"
Line: 38
?x__500_ERROR.Output.Head.Title
Property not found
x__500_ERROR.Output.Head.Title subelement not found.
Execution Stack:
0#1 evaluate_shared_private(
0#39 OOhttpdServerClientMIME(ptemp,"AppServerMain")
0#2 A5WCallResult = evaluate_a5w_to_response(page_contents,Response,quote(" " + eval_settings.global.Request.ScriptName),eval_settings,EVALUATE_A5W_TIMEOUT,RequestBundle.RequestInfo.Filename.Path)
0#38
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Component not found: 500_ERRORThu May 21 10:02:09 2020

Thread: AppServerWorker4
Request URI: /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php
Script: " /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php"
Line: 38
?x__500_ERROR.Output.Head.Title
Property not found
x__500_ERROR.Output.Head.Title subelement not found.
Execution Stack:
0#1 evaluate_shared_private(
0#39 OOhttpdServerClientMIME(ptemp,"AppServerMain")
0#2 A5WCallResult = evaluate_a5w_to_response(page_contents,Response,quote(" " + eval_settings.global.Request.ScriptName),eval_settings,EVALUATE_A5W_TIMEOUT,RequestBundle.RequestInfo.Filename.Path)
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    My question here is what might I do to mitigate this?
    Mike Brown - Contact Me
    Programmatic Technologies, LLC
    Programmatic-Technologies.com
    Independent Developer & Consultant​​
    Tags: None
    #2
    A quick Google search returned https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...nt-in-logs-sec and many other results

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      #3
      One good solution is to use Cloudflare to block any of this so it never gets to the Alpha server.
      -Steve
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        #4
        Thank you both. I've got some reading to do!
        Mike Brown - Contact Me
        Programmatic Technologies, LLC
        Programmatic-Technologies.com
        Independent Developer & Consultant​​

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          #5
          Can the load balancer be used to discard bogus requests before they get to Alpha Server? For example, if everything for your app is in a subfolder, could the LB be configured to ignore any resource requests that do not begin with that subfolder? You’d want to keep the subfolder name off of any public facing web sites that point to your site.

          Steve Wood has source code for a Load Balancer that he sells and I have been wondering if he could configure his load balancer to do something like that.

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            #6
            Problem resolved. Configuring AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) solved the problem.
            Mike Brown - Contact Me
            Programmatic Technologies, LLC
            Programmatic-Technologies.com
            Independent Developer & Consultant​​

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