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Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook

You're reading from   Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook Hacking tactics, techniques, and procedures for testing web applications and APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817332
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nestor Torres Nestor Torres
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Ahmed Almoailu Ahmed Almoailu
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Ryan Soper Ryan Soper
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with OWASP Zed Attack Proxy 2. Chapter 2: Navigating the UI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Configuring, Crawling, Scanning, and Reporting 4. Chapter 4: Authentication and Authorization Testing 5. Chapter 5: Testing of Session Management 6. Chapter 6: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 1 7. Chapter 7: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 2 8. Chapter 8: Business Logic Testing 9. Chapter 9: Client-Side Testing 10. Chapter 10: Advanced Attack Techniques 11. Chapter 11: Advanced Adventures with ZAP 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing for server-side request forgery

Internal and external resources routinely interact with web applications. While you would expect only the intended resource to receive the data you supply, improper data management might result in SSRF, a kind of injection attack. A successful SSRF attack can grant the attacker access to restricted operations, internal services, or internal files within the program or the company. In this recipe, we will show how to perform an SSRF attack on a backend system to search for an internal IP address and subsequently remove the user.

Getting ready

Start up your local ZAP tool and log in to your PortSwigger Academy account, then go to the Basic SSRF against another back-end system lab at https://portswigger.net/web-security/ssrf/lab-basic-ssrf-against-backend-system.

How to do it...

We’ll utilize the PortSwigger Academy Basic SSRF versus another back-end system lab in this recipe. SSRF is an attack where an attacker sends malicious...

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