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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

By : Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir
Book Image

Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

By: Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir

Overview of this book

Bug bounty programs are the deals offered by prominent companies where-in any white-hat hacker can find bugs in the applications and they will have a recognition for the same. The number of prominent organizations having this program has increased gradually leading to a lot of opportunity for Ethical Hackers. This book will initially start with introducing you to the concept of Bug Bounty hunting. Then we will dig deeper into concepts of vulnerabilities and analysis such as HTML injection, CRLF injection and so on. Towards the end of the book, we will get hands-on experience working with different tools used for bug hunting and various blogs and communities to be followed. This book will get you started with bug bounty hunting and its fundamentals.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


Application logic vulnerabilities are the most valuable bugs for a bug bounty hunter. Although they are hard to find, they have the greatest impact on the application, and you are less likely to get a duplicate when reporting them. To summarize the information in this chapter, we enumerate the main points:

  • Try to understand how the application works using a HTTP proxy. Focus on the variables and parameters that could be used to control the application's flow.
  • Launch automated tools for port scanning, vulnerability assessments, and configuration management issues.
  • Replicate previous vulnerabilities between applications.