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

4.4 Authentication Testing
4.4.1 Default or guessable (dictionary) user account
4.4.2 Brute Force
4.4.3 Bypassing authentication schema
4.4.4 Directory traversal/file include
4.4.5 Vulnerable remember password and pwd reset
4.4.6 Logout and Browser Cache Management Testing

4.5 Session Management Testing
4.5.1 Analysis of the Session Management Schema
4.5.2 Cookie and Session Token Manipulation
4.5.3 Exposed Session Variables
4.5.4 Session Riding
4.5.5 HTTP Exploit (70%, Arian J.Evans, Alberto Revelli)

4.6 Data Validation Testing
4.6.1 Cross Site Scripting
4.6.1.1 HTTP Methods and XST
4.6.2 SQL Injection
Stored procedure injection (moving to Testing for SQL Injection testing)
4.6.2.1 Oracle Testing
4.6.2.2 MySQL Testing
4.6.2.3 SQL Server Testing

4.6.3 LDAP Injection
4.6.4 ORM Injection
4.6.5 XML Injection
4.6.6 SSI Injection
4.6.7 XPath Injection
4.6.8 IMAP/SMTP Injection
4.6.9 Code Injection
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

4.7 Denial of Service Testing
4.7.1 Locking Customer Accounts
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
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, Anush Shetty)
4.9.1 AJAX Vulnerabilities
4.9.2 How to test AJAX

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

• Whitepapers
  
• Books
  
• Useful Websites
  

Appendix C: Fuzz Vectors

• 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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