OWASP Testing Guide v2 Table of Contents

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Frontispiece

1.1 About the OWASP Testing Guide Project
1.1.1 Copyright
1.1.2 Editors
1.1.3 Authors and Reviewers (0%, Review)
1.1.4 Revision History
1.1.5 Trademarks
1.2 About The Open Web Application Security Project
1.2.1 Overview
1.2.2 Structure
1.2.3 Licensing
1.2.4 Participation and Membership
1.2.5 Projects
1.2.6 OWASP Privacy Policy

Introduction

2.1 The OWASP Testing Project
2.2 Principles of Testing
2.3 Testing Techniques Explained

The OWASP Testing Framework

3.1. Overview
3.2. Phase 1 — Before Development Begins
3.3. Phase 2: During Definition and Design
3.4. Phase 3: During Development
3.5. Phase 4: During Deployment
3.6. Phase 5: Maintenance and Operations
3.7. A Typical SDLC Testing Workflow

Web Application Penetration Testing

4.1 Introduction and objectives (Matteo Meucci)

4.2 Information Gathering (Carlo Pelliccioni)
4.2.1 Testing Web Application Fingerprint (Antonio Parata)
4.2.2 Application Discovery (Mauro Bregolin)
4.2.3 Spidering and googling (60%,Tom Brennan, Tom Ryan)
4.2.4 Analysis of error code (Carlo Pelliccioni)
4.2.5 Infrastructure configuration management testing (Javier Fernández-Sanguino)
4.2.5.1 SSL/TLS Testing(Mauro Bregolin, Mark Curphey)
4.2.5.2 DB Listener Testing (Eoin Keary, Matteo Meucci)
4.2.6 Application configuration management testing (Javier Fernández-Sanguino)
4.2.6.1 File extensions handling (Mauro Bregolin)
4.2.6.2 Old, backup and unreferenced files (Mauro Bregolin, Javier Fernández Sanguino, Dafydd Studdard)

4.3 Business logic testing (Madhura Halasgikar)

4.4 Authentication Testing (Meucci)
4.4.1 Default or guessable (dictionary) user account
4.4.2 Brute Force (Giorgio Fedon, Andrea Lombardini)
4.4.3 Bypassing authentication schema (Giorgio Fedon, Andrea Lombardini)
4.4.4 Directory traversal/file include (Luca Carettoni)
4.4.5 Vulnerable remember password and pwd reset (Ralph M. Los,Alberto Revelli)
4.4.6 Logout and Browser Cache Management Testing (Alberto Revelli)

4.5 Session Management Testing (Glyn Geoghegan, Meucci)
4.5.1 Analysis of the Session Management Schema (Meucci)
4.5.2 Cookie and Session token Manipulation (Alberto Revelli, Matteo Meucci)
4.5.3 Exposed session variables (Meucci)
4.5.4 Session Riding (XSRF) (Mauro Bregolin)
4.5.5 HTTP Exploit (70%, Arian J.Evans, Alberto Revelli)

4.6 Data Validation Testing (Meucci)
4.6.1 Cross site scripting (100%, Tom Brennan, Tom Ryan)
4.6.1.1 HTTP Methods and XST (Alberto Revelli)
4.6.2 SQL Injection (Antonio Parata, Gary Burns)
4.6.2.1 Oracle testing (David Litchfield)
4.6.2.2 MySQL testing (Stefano Di Paola)
4.6.2.3 SQL Server testing (Ariel Waissbein, Laura Nuñez, Alberto Revelli)
4.6.3 LDAP Injection (Stefano Di Paola)
4.6.4 ORM Injection (Mark Roxberry)
4.6.5 XML Injection (Antonio Parata, Stefano Di Paola)
4.6.6 SSI Injection (Claudio Merloni)
4.6.7 XPath Injection (Antonio Parata, Alberto Revelli, Stefano Di Paola)
4.6.8 IMAP/SMTP Injection (Vicente Aguilera)
4.6.9 Code Injection (100%, Mark Roxberry)
4.6.10 OS Commanding (70%, Gary Burns)
4.6.11 Buffer overflow Testing
4.6.11.1 Heap overflow
4.6.11.2 Stack overflow
4.6.11.3 Format string
4.6.12 Incubated vulnerability testing (95%,Ariel Waissbein, Laura Nuñez)

4.7 Denial of Service Testing
4.7.1 Locking Customer Accounts Review
4.7.2 Buffer Overflows
4.7.3 User Specified Object Allocation
4.7.4 User Input as a Loop Counter
4.7.5 Writing User Provided Data to Disk
4.7.6 Failure to Release Resources
4.7.7 Storing too Much Data in Session

4.8 Web Services Testing (Eoin Keary, Mark Roxberry)
4.8.1 XML Structural Testing
4.8.2 XML content-level Testing
4.8.3 HTTP GET parameters/REST Testing
4.8.4 Naughty SOAP attachments
4.8.5 Replay Testing

4.9 AJAX Testing (70%, Dan Cornell, Giorgio Fedon, Stefano Di Paola)
4.9.1 Vulnerabilities (90%, Anush Shetty)
4.9.2 How to test (60%)

Writing Reports: value the real risk

5.1 How to value the real risk (90%, Daniel Cuthbert, Matteo Meucci, Sebastien Deleersnyder, Marco Morana)
5.2 How to write the report of the testing (Daniel Cuthbert, Tom Brennan)

Appendix A: Testing Tools

• Black Box Testing Tools
• Source Code Analyzers
• Other Tools

Appendix B: Suggested Reading

(80%)

• Whitepapers
  
• Books
  
• Articles
  
• Useful Websites
  

Appendix C: Fuzz Vectors

(80%)

• Fuzz Categories
  • Recursive fuzzing
  • Replasive fuzzing
• Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
• Buffer Overflows and Format String Errors
  • Buffer Overflows (BFO)
  • Format String Errors (FSE)
  • Integer Overflows (INT)
• SQL Injection
  • Passive SQL Injection (SQP)
  • Active SQL Injection (SQI)
• LDAP Injection
• XPATH Injection

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