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Threat Modeling Tool Input Validation
This page contains Windows bias
About This Page
This page is part of the Azure documentation. It contains code examples and configuration instructions for working with Azure services.
Bias Analysis
Detected Bias Types
windows_first
missing_linux_example
windows_tools
powershell_heavy
Summary
The documentation page demonstrates a strong Windows bias. Examples, configuration instructions, and references are almost exclusively for Windows-centric technologies (e.g., .NET, IIS, MSXML, web.config, C#, ASP.NET, WCF). Linux and cross-platform equivalents are missing or only briefly mentioned (e.g., Apple NSXMLParser). Windows tools and patterns (IIS, web.config, MSXML, .NET APIs) are presented first and often exclusively, with no parity for Linux/Unix environments (e.g., Apache/Nginx config, Python/Java code, Linux file validation tools).
Recommendations
- Add equivalent Linux/Unix examples for configuration (e.g., setting HTTP headers in Apache/Nginx, disabling XSLT scripting in libxslt, XML entity resolution in Python/Java libraries).
- Provide code samples in languages commonly used on Linux (Python, Java, Node.js, Go) alongside C#/.NET.
- Reference Linux tools and patterns (e.g., ClamAV for file scanning, Linux file signature validation, SELinux/AppArmor for file upload controls).
- Include instructions for cross-platform frameworks (e.g., Flask/Django, Spring, Express) for input validation, output encoding, and safe redirects.
- Mention how to configure security headers and validation in Linux web servers (Apache, Nginx) and cloud-native environments.
- Balance references and links to include non-Windows documentation and best practices.
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| 2026-01-14 00:00 | #250 | in_progress |
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| 2026-01-13 00:00 | #246 | completed |
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| 2026-01-11 00:00 | #240 | completed |
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| 2026-01-09 00:34 | #234 | completed |
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| 2026-01-08 00:53 | #231 | completed |
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| 2026-01-06 18:15 | #225 | cancelled |
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| 2025-08-17 00:01 | #83 | cancelled |
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| 2025-07-13 21:37 | #48 | completed |
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| 2025-07-12 23:44 | #41 | cancelled |
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