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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

By : Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
Book Image

Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

By: Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar

Overview of this book

Burp suite is a set of graphic tools focused towards penetration testing of web applications. Burp suite is widely used for web penetration testing by many security professionals for performing different web-level security tasks. The book starts by setting up the environment to begin an application penetration test. You will be able to configure the client and apply target whitelisting. You will also learn to setup and configure Android and IOS devices to work with Burp Suite. The book will explain how various features of Burp Suite can be used to detect various vulnerabilities as part of an application penetration test. Once detection is completed and the vulnerability is confirmed, you will be able to exploit a detected vulnerability using Burp Suite. The book will also covers advanced concepts like writing extensions and macros for Burp suite. Finally, you will discover various steps that are taken to identify the target, discover weaknesses in the authentication mechanism, and finally break the authentication implementation to gain access to the administrative console of the application. By the end of this book, you will be able to effectively perform end-to-end penetration testing with Burp Suite.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
About Packt
Preface
12
Exploiting and Exfiltrating Data from a Large Shipping Corporation
Index

Detecting Insecure Direct Object References


An Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability appears when a parameter gains access to a certain resource. By modifying this parameter, it is possible to access other resources that are not authorized for this user. Usually the affected parameters are used as control for the application's flow, for example, the named id, uid, r, url, ur, and so on.

These kinds of vulnerabilities could be detected using the Target tool in Burp Suite. Similar to the CSRF detection, the more URLs you detect, the more possibilities there are to find vulnerabilities:

  1. To add a target to the scope, go to Burp Suite, and using the secondary button of the mouse, click on Add to the scope option.
  2. Then go to the Target tool, and click on the Scope tab. Here you will see listed all the URLs, domains, and sections added to the scope. If you want you can limit the Burp Suite's history just to log requests in the scope, but I do not recommend that, because sometimes it...