During a penetration testing engagement, your team has identified an application that is vulnerable to command injection due to insufficient input validation. In your final report, what is the most appropriate process-level remediation recommendation to address this specific vulnerability?
Suggest increasing the complexity of input validation rules within the application code.
Advise the client to update their application frameworks to the latest versions to avoid command injection.
Recommend the implementation of proper input sanitization and the use of prepared statements or parameterized queries.
Instruct the client to configure the existing Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block command injection attacks.
Input sanitization and the use of prepared statements or parameterized queries are the most effective process-level remediation strategies for preventing command injection vulnerabilities. This is because they both work to ensure that any command or query executed by the application treats user input as data rather than executable code, thus preventing attackers from interfering with the commands or queries the application runs. Although updating application frameworks and verifying the use of a WAF can provide additional security benefits, they are not direct mitigation strategies for command injection at the process level.
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