Here be dragons
OWASP released its tool called Threat Dragon. It’s a free threat modeling tool that you can download right away. It’s not a big thing yet, but it might be in the near future. Let’s take a look why.
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A10 2017 – Insufficient Logging and Monitoring
How do you know that your site works as it supposed to? How do you know if it’s down? I was thrilled to realize that most of admins say – well, if nobody calls me on the phone, then it’s fine. But what if you’re in charge of a web hosting platform with thousands of web sites? And let’s say one-minute downtime costs a million? You’d better start planning some monitoring solution before it’s too late.
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A9 2017 – Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
You’ve done it! Congratulations! Your code is nearly perfect and secure, it was tested by a dozen pairs of eyes and money spent on code analyzing software was not in vain. It’s just one final step – let DevOps deploy it and let your customers work with the amazing web site you’ve made.
Next morning you’ve got an email from your boss and he’s not angry. He’s in rage! He’s not impressed with progress you made, but asks a single burning question – what’s that huge white face with stupid mustache he sees instead of a web site?
Your site was defaced overnight. You call DevOps and now it’s your turn to ask questions – guys, what web server do you deploy it on? Is it secure? Do you update it from time to time? Never? Oh …
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A8 2017 – Insecure Deserlization
The serialization is the process of turning some objects into a data format that can be restored later. For example, you have a forum, online shop or any other web site and you have to send objects between different parts of this site. So, during the serialization you transform an object to a byte stream, so it was in a right form to traverse around HTTP traffic or send to be stored in database.
So, the deserialization is the exact opposite process in which we take structured data from some format and rebuild it to an object.
Most poplar thing today is JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), while recently it was XML, which we discussed in A4.
So, what can go wrong, why is that a problem?
A7 2017 – XSS (part 2)
Every public speech I make, every lecture I present, I always start with a demo. I know there are highly trained professionals out there with outstanding public speaking and presentation skills who write articles and books about art of public speaking. But I guess for most of us it’s more about finding our own way of speaking to audience.
I start with a demo because I think it makes people more involved. And demos of setting some system up or pentesting with visual results are always entertaining and eye-catching for everybody in the room.
So, when it comes to a demo of XSS there’s no better example than use BeEF.
No, not that one. BeEF as Browser Exploitation Framework
A7 2017 – XSS (Part 1)
Most of the time scripts come from other places than web site itself. These scripts are allowed to operate on the page and usually there’s some mechanism in place to control their behavior. You can think of it as a sand box – each web site runs pretty much independently. This also means that one site opened in a tab of browser isn’t allowed to access data from another site in a tab next to it. So, in theory Cross-Site Script (or XSS) is basically a violation of this principle. And it’s much worse in practice.
A6 2017 – Security Misconfiguration
Security misconfiguration is a blanket term for a broad specter of vulnerabilities. We won’t look at specific examples today. I want to draw some scenarios that you might find interesting, so you can avoid them.
A4: 2017 – XML External Entities (XXE)
XML is a very good way to store and to organize data, and XXE vulnerability takes advantage of XML parsers not data itself. It works like every other injection, but has its own features. Overall in my opinion, it’s little more complex than any other injection around.
A1: 2017 – Injections (Part 2)
Bicycle syndrome
In the last article I suggested that my reader knows how SQL works in detail, as well as the mechanism of the HTTP protocol . But usually it’s not the case. And I immediately remembered the story described in one of my favorite books «Suspicious minds: Why we believe conspiracy theories» by Rob Brotherton. It describes the following experiment – psychologist Rebecca Lawson asked the group of test subjects if they ride a bicycle in their lives at least once? The majority replied positively. Then she asked if they knew how the bicycle works. There were little less positive answers, but still the vast majority. And then she proposed the following image and asked to finish the picture so it would be possible to ride this bicycle.
And then the most amazing thing happened – more than half of people could not do it. This deceptively simple task shows that most people have no idea how the bicycle works. But the most interesting thing is that they do not understand that they do not know it, and begin to understand it only at the moment when they have to demonstrate this knowledge.
It’s pretty much the same thing with HTTP and SQL. More than 90% IT specialists wrote SQL requests at least once in the lab or university. People work with HTTP every day as regular users, and as IT professionals they occasionally configure web servers that actually works with HTTP. But when one has to answer a specific question … well, you’ve got the idea.
A1: 2017 – Injections (Part 1)
The vulnerability description is one thing, but trying to find a vulnerability and deal with it is a whole different matter. There are dozens, if not hundreds, special deliberately vulnerable web applications. If you search for “Purposely Vulnerable App» in you favorite search engine, you will find more than a dozen links.
In the following series of articles we will learn about vulnerabilities in OWASP Top 10, and as a polygon I will also use such deliberately vulnerable application. In my case it will be OWASP Mutillidae II. It’s not the best option out there, but the vulnerabilities are structured exactly as we need for educational purposes. Plus I’m very used to it.
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