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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

By : Joe Marshall, Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

By: Joe Marshall, Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

Bug bounties have quickly become a critical part of the security economy. This book shows you how technical professionals with an interest in security can begin productively—and profitably—participating in bug bounty programs. You will learn about SQli, NoSQLi, XSS, XXE, and other forms of code injection. You’ll see how to create CSRF PoC HTML snippets, how to discover hidden content (and what to do with it once it’s found), and how to create the tools for automated pentesting work?ows. Then, you’ll format all of this information within the context of a bug report that will have the greatest chance of earning you cash. With detailed walkthroughs that cover discovering, testing, and reporting vulnerabilities, this book is ideal for aspiring security professionals. You should come away from this work with the skills you need to not only find the bugs you're looking for, but also the best bug bounty programs to participate in, and how to grow your skills moving forward in freelance security research.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Framework and Application-Specific Vulnerabilities

Identifying a framework or application-specific vulnerability, including Known Component Vulnerabilities (identified by their CVE designation, which we'll discuss later), is a tricky business.

It's a universal stipulation of bug bounty programs that companies don't reward the same vulnerability twice—the first researcher to disclose a vulnerability is the only one that's rewarded. This goes hand in hand with the fact that companies usually won't reward already publicly disclosed bugs within two weeks of the discovery of the original zero-day (like everyone, they need time to deploy a patch), and they aren't interested in vendor-level vulnerabilities in third-party libraries. This might seem like a waste of time, then, except if we take two important points into consideration.

The cost of adoption...