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Pentesting APIs

You're reading from   Pentesting APIs A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837633166
Length 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maurício Harley Maurício Harley
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to API Security
2. Chapter 1: Understanding APIs and their Security Landscape FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Penetration Testing Environment 4. Part 2: API Information Gathering and AuthN/AuthZ Testing
5. Chapter 3: API Reconnaissance and Information Gathering 6. Chapter 4: Authentication and Authorization Testing 7. Part 3: API Basic Attacks
8. Chapter 5: Injection Attacks and Validation Testing 9. Chapter 6: Error Handling and Exception Testing 10. Chapter 7: Denial of Service and Rate-Limiting Testing 11. Part 4: API Advanced Topics
12. Chapter 8: Data Exposure and Sensitive Information Leakage 13. Chapter 9: API Abuse and Business Logic Testing 14. Part 5: API Security Best Practices
15. Chapter 10: Secure Coding Practices for APIs 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “Inside the header, some attributes can be declared, such as env:role, env:mustUnderstand, and env:relay.”

A block of code is set as follows:

<env:Header>
  <BA:BlockA xmlns:BA="http://mysoap.com"
   env:role="http://mysoap.com/role/A" env:mustUnderstand="true">
   ...
  </BA:BlockA>
  <BB:BlockB xmlns:BB="http://mysoap.com"
   env:role="http://mysoap.com/role/B" env:relay="true">
    ...
  </BB:BlockB>
</env:Header>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "IsStudent", "params": [100], "id": 1}
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "result": true, "id": 1}
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "IsStudent", "params": ["ABC"], "id": 2}
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "error": {"code": -1, "message": "Invalid enrollment id format"}, "id": 2}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “Select Next and you’ll be asked in which directory you’d like it to be installed. “

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