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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

Exploiting security misconfigurations


The term misconfiguration is so open that it could mean a lot of things related to security. At the same time, it is so difficult to determine the impact of these kinds of vulnerabilities; some of these vulnerabilities could be just informational, showing information about the technology used to construct an application, and others could be so critical, providing access to the server, or to the application, thereby exposing all of it.

So, in this section, we will be showing different common errors, and how to exploit them using Burp Suite.

Default pages

It is common that server administrators install web servers or other applications, and they do not configure them to avoid showing the default pages, so, it is normal to find pages like the following:

This default page may be generic, but it shows information, which, depending on the environment, could be useful. For example, in this case, we are seeing Apache Tomcat's default page. Tomcat is an application...