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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

Mitigation


The mitigation for these vulnerabilities is a little tricky; actually, when you report an SSTI, it's complicated to explain, as a big SSTI is usually classified as another vulnerability. The next points are important to keep in mind while writing recommendations for your report:

  • Validate the strings loaded as you were using an eval() function.
  • Implement protections for Local File Inclusions (LFIs). When a functionality is added through an attack, it works as a require function.
  • Do not pass dynamic data directly to a template. Instead, use the engine's built-in functionality.