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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)

Testing Directory Traversal File Include

Directory traversal, also known as path traversal, file include is where an attacker looks to exploit a lack of input validation or weakly deployed methods to read or write files that are not authorized or warranted to be accessible. In this recipe, we will discover the method of how attackers conduct such an attack, which is known as the “dot dot slash” (../) attack.

Getting ready

To start, ensure that ZAP is started and use the PortSwigger Academy lab, File path traversal, simple case.

How to do it…

To determine which part of the application is vulnerable to input validation bypassing, you need to enumerate all parts of the application that accept content from the user’s perspective. This includes HTTP GET and POST queries and common options such as file uploads and HTML forms. Let’s look at the steps:

  1. Capture the web application in ZAP.
  2. Spider the web application and look for any...