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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Identifying vulnerabilities in cookies


Cookies are small pieces of data sent from websites and stored in the user's web browser. They contain information relative to such browser or to some specific web application's user. In modern web applications, cookies are used to keep track of the user's session. By saving session identifiers on the server and on the user's computer, the server is able to distinguish between different requests made from different clients at the same time. When any request is sent to the server, the browser adds a cookie and then sends the request; the server can identify the session based on that cookie.

In this recipe, we will learn how to identify a couple of vulnerabilities that will allow an attacker to hijack the session of a valid user.

How to do it

  1. Navigate to http://192.168.56.102/mutillidae/.

  2. Open Cookie Manager+ and delete all the cookies. This is to prevent being confused with the previous ones.

  3. Now, in Mutillidae II, navigate to OWASP Top 10 | A3 – Broken Authentication...

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