Book Image

Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook

By : Ryan Soper, Nestor N Torres, Ahmed Almoailu
Book Image

Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook

By: Ryan Soper, Nestor N Torres, Ahmed Almoailu

Overview of this book

Maintaining your cybersecurity posture in the ever-changing, fast-paced security landscape requires constant attention and advancements. This book will help you safeguard your organization using the free and open source OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) tool, which allows you to test for vulnerabilities and exploits with the same functionality as a licensed tool. Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook contains a vast array of practical recipes to help you set up, configure, and use ZAP to protect your vital systems from various adversaries. If you're interested in cybersecurity or working as a cybersecurity professional, this book will help you master ZAP. You’ll start with an overview of ZAP and understand how to set up a basic lab environment for hands-on activities over the course of the book. As you progress, you'll go through a myriad of step-by-step recipes detailing various types of exploits and vulnerabilities in web applications, along with advanced techniques such as Java deserialization. By the end of this ZAP book, you’ll be able to install and deploy ZAP, conduct basic to advanced web application penetration attacks, use the tool for API testing, deploy an integrated BOAST server, and build ZAP into a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Advanced Attack Techniques

Welcome to Chapter 10, Advanced Attack Techniques. In this chapter, we will cover some advanced attacks, such as XML external entity (XXE) attacks and Java deserialization, where we will explain and demonstrate exploiting these vulnerabilities on the testing applications. We will also have fun brute-forcing the password change on one of the applications, conducting web cache poisoning, and working with JSON Web Tokens.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Performing XXE attacks
  • Working with JSON Web Tokens
  • Performing Java deserialization attacks
  • Password brute-force via password change
  • Web cache poisoning