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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

You're reading from   Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers A practical guide to help ethical hackers discover web application security flaws

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789344202
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Joe Marshall Joe Marshall
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Joining the Hunt 2. Choosing Your Hunting Ground FREE CHAPTER 3. Preparing for an Engagement 4. Unsanitized Data – An XSS Case Study 5. SQL, Code Injection, and Scanners 6. CSRF and Insecure Session Authentication 7. Detecting XML External Entities 8. Access Control and Security Through Obscurity 9. Framework and Application-Specific Vulnerabilities 10. Formatting Your Report 11. Other Tools 12. Other (Out of Scope) Vulnerabilities 13. Going Further 14. Assessment 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Other (Out of Scope) Vulnerabilities

We've covered a lot about what you should look for—the structure of vulnerabilities, and how to test for them in both programmatic and manual ways.

It seems unimportant to talk about what you shouldn't look for—if you don't care about it, you'll just ignore it, right? But there are several common findings and false positives that you'll see being spit out by scanners, passive analysis tools, extensions, and command-line logs again and again. It's useful to have an idea of what vulnerabilities companies are not interested in so that you can both avoid wasting your time submitting doomed bug reports and configure your tools to report less noise to you in the first place.

The common theme for most of the vulnerabilities we'll cover here are that they don't have a clear path to exploitation...

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