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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

Building a testing lab

Now that you have chosen your tools and frameworks, let’s start building the environment that will accommodate our lab. I won’t show neither the hypervisor nor Ubuntu installation steps because they are very straightforward. However, should you find some trouble while installing them, you can always check the official documentations , such as https://help.ubuntu.com/20.04/installation-guide/index.html, https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/getting-started/, and https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.18/UserManual.pdf. The sequence of tools that you will see in this section sort of follows the sequence they are introduced in the upcoming chapters. Some of them only contain a couple of screenshots and were not actually used throughout the book. So, their installations won’t be covered here.

Installing Docker

Let’s start with installing Docker first.

  1. With your VM fully loaded, open a command prompt...
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