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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By : Rejah Rehim
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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By: Rejah Rehim

Overview of this book

Penetration testing is a practice of testing a computer system, network, or web application to find weaknesses in security that an attacker can exploit. Effective Python Penetration Testing will help you utilize your Python scripting skills to safeguard your networks from cyberattacks. We will begin by providing you with an overview of Python scripting and penetration testing. You will learn to analyze network traffic by writing Scapy scripts and will see how to fingerprint web applications with Python libraries such as ProxMon and Spynner. Moving on, you will find out how to write basic attack scripts, and will develop debugging and reverse engineering skills with Python libraries. Toward the end of the book, you will discover how to utilize cryptography toolkits in Python and how to automate Python tools and libraries.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Missing function level access control


Web applications verify the function level access rights for a user before providing access to a specific functionality. These access control checks also need to be verified server-side. If these types of access checks are missing on the server side, an attacker can enter the application without any authorization. To check this type of vulnerability, we can create custom scripts to authenticate a less privileged user to the application and try accessing restricted pages. We can make sure that all restricted pages are not accessible for any less privileged user.