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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)

Password brute-force via password change

A brute force attack is a cracking method that uses trial and error to compromise login information, encryption keys, and passwords. It is a simple yet effective method for gaining unauthorized access to user accounts, business systems, or networks. Until they discover the proper login details, a malicious user attempts a wide variety of usernames and password combinations to obtain the right authentication credentials.

In this recipe, we will attack a vulnerable password change function within the application using brute-force attacks.

Getting ready

This lab requires a PortSwigger Academy account and ZAP to intercept requests and responses from the server to your browser.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will demonstrate a brute-force attack by completing the PortSwigger Academy Password brute-force via password change lab to find the correct credentials. To start the lab, follow these instructions:

  1. Navigate to the...