Testing Checklist

OWASP Testing Guide v3 Table of Contents

This article is part of the OWASP Testing Guide v3. The entire OWASP Testing Guide v3 can be downloaded here.

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The following is the list of controls to test during the assessment:

Category Ref. Number Test Name Vulnerability Information Gathering

       OWASP-IG-001	4.2.1 Spiders, Robots and Crawlers 	N.A.

OWASP-IG-002 4.2.2 Search Engine Discovery/Reconnaissance N.A. OWASP-IG-003 4.2.3 Identify application entry points N.A. OWASP-IG-004 4.2.3 Testing for Web Application Fingerprint N.A. OWASP-IG-005 4.2.4 Application Discovery N.A. OWASP-IG-006 4.2.5 Analysis of Error Codes Information Disclosure

Configuration Management Testing

       OWASP-CM-001	4.3.1 SSL/TLS Testing (SSL Version, Alghoritms, Key lenght, Digital Cert. Validity)	SSL Weakness

OWASP-CM-002 4.3.2 DB Listener Testing DB Listener weak OWASP-CM-003 4.3.3 Application Configuration Management Testing Configuration management weakness OWASP-CM-004 4.3.4 Testing for misconfiguration Misconfiguration OWASP-CM-005 4.3.5 Testing for File Extensions Handling File extensions handling OWASP-CM-006 4.3.6 Old, backup and unreferenced files Old, backup and unreferenced files OWASP-CM-007 4.3.7 Infrastructure and Application Admin Interfaces Access to Admin interfaces OWASP-CM-008 4.3.8 Testing for HTTP Methods and XST HTTP Methods enabled, XST permitted

Business logic testing

       OWASP-BL-001	Testing for Business Logic	Bypassable business logic

Authentication Testing

       OWASP-AT-001	4.5.1 Credentials transport over an encrypted channel 	Credentials transport over an encrypted channel

OWASP-AT-002 4.5.2 Testing for user enumeration User enumeration OWASP-AT-003 4.5.3 Testing for Guessable (Dictionary) User Account Guessable user account OWASP-AT-004 4.5.3 Brute Force Testing Brute forcing OWASP-AT-005 4.5.4 Testing for bypassing authentication schema bypassing authentication schema OWASP-AT-006 4.5.5 Testing for directory traversal/file include directory traversal/file include OWASP-AT-007 4.5.6 Testing for vulnerable remember password and pwd reset vulnerable remember password, weak pwd reset OWASP-AT-008 4.5.7 Testing for Logout and Browser Cache Management Testing Logout function not properly implemented, browser cache weakness

Authorization Testing

       OWASP-AZ-001	(new)4.6.1 Testing for Path Traversal 	Path Traversal

OWASP-AZ-002 (new)4.6.2 Testing for bypassing authorization schema Bypassing authorization schema OWASP-AZ-003 (new)4.6.3 Testing for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Session Management

       OWASP-SM-001	4.7.1 Testing for Session Management Schema	Bypassing Session Management Schema

OWASP-SM-002 4.7.2 Test the token strength Weak Session Token OWASP-SM-003 4.7.3 Testing for Cookies attributes Cookies are set not ‘HTTP Only’, ‘Secure’, and no time validity OWASP-SM-004 4.7.4 Testing for Exposed Session Variables Exposed sensitive session variables OWASP-SM-005 4.7.5 Testing for CSRF CSRF OWASP-SM-006 4.7.6 Testing for HTTP Exploit HTTP Exploit

Data Validation Testing

       OWASP-DV-001	4.8.1 Testing for Reflected Cross Site Scripting 	Reflected XSS

OWASP-DV-002 4.8.2 Testing for Stored Cross Site Scripting Stored XSS OWASP-DV-003 4.8.3 Testing for DOM based Cross Site Scripting DOM XSS OWASP-DV-004 4.8.4 Testing for Cross Site Flashing Cross Site Flashing OWASP-DV-005 SQL Injection SQL Injection OWASP-DV-006 LDAP Injection LDAP Injection OWASP-DV-007 ORM Injection ORM Injection OWASP-DV-008 XML Injection XML Injection OWASP-DV-009 SSI Injection SSI Injection OWASP-DV-010 XPath Injection XPath Injection OWASP-DV-011 IMAP/SMTP Injection IMAP/SMTP Injection OWASP-DV-012 Code Injection Code Injection OWASP-DV-013 OS Commanding OS Commanding OWASP-DV-014 Buffer overflow Buffer overflow OWASP-DV-015 Incubated vulnerability Incubated vulnerability

Denial of Service Testing

       OWASP-DS-001	Locking Customer Accounts	Locking Customer Accounts

OWASP-DS-002 User Specified Object Allocation User Specified Object Allocation OWASP-DS-003 User Input as a Loop Counter User Input as a Loop Counter OWASP-DS-004 Writing User Provided Data to Disk Writing User Provided Data to Disk OWASP-DS-005 Failure to Release Resources Failure to Release Resources OWASP-DS-006 Storing too Much Data in Session Storing too Much Data in Session

Web Services Testing

       OWASP-WS-001	XML Structural Testing	Weak XML Structure

OWASP-WS-002 XML content-level Testing XML content-level OWASP-WS-003 HTTP GET parameters/REST Testing WS HTTP GET parameters/REST OWASP-WS-004 Naughty SOAP attachments WS Naughty SOAP attachments OWASP-WS-005 Replay Testing WS Replay Testing

Client Side Testing

       OWASP-CS-001