ZAPpingTheTop10

ZAPping the OWASP Top 10

This document gives an overview of the automatic and manual components provided by the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project (ZAP) that are recommended for testing each of the OWASP Top Ten Project 2017 risks.

A complete mapping for the 2013 edition of the OWASP Top 10 can be found here.

Note that the OWASP Top Ten Project risks cover a wide range of underlying vulnerabilities, some of which are not really possible to test for in a completely automated way. If a completely automated tool claims to protect you against the full OWASP Top Ten then you can be sure they are being ‘economical with the truth’!

A printable (pdf) version of this document is also available (based on the Top 10 - 2013 edition): ZAPpingTheOwaspTop10.pdf

The component links take you to the relevant places in an online version of the ZAP User Guide from which you can learn more.

	Common Components
	The 'common components' can be used for pretty much everything, so can be used to help detect all of the Top 10
Manual	Man-in-the-middle proxy
Manual	Manual request / resend
Manual	Scripts
Manual	Search
A1	A1 Injection
Automated	Active Scan Rules (Release, Beta* and Alpha*)
Automated	SQLMap Injection Engine (Beta*)
Manual	Fuzzer, combined with the FuzzDb (Release)* and SVN Digger (Beta)* files
A2	A2 Broken Authentication
Manual	Http Sessions
Manual	Spider
Manual	Forced Browse (Beta)
Manual	Token Generator (Beta)*
Automatic	Access Control Testing*
A3	A3 Sensitive Data Exposure
Automated	Active Scan Rules (Release, Beta* and Alpha*)
Automated	Passive Scan Rules (Release, Beta* and Alpha*)
A4	A4 XML External Entities (XXE)
Automatic	Active scan rules Beta*
A5	A5 Broken Access Control
Automated	Active Scan Rules (Release, Beta* and Alpha*)
Automated	Passive Scan Rules (Release, Beta* and Alpha*)
Manual	HttpsInfo (Alpha)*
Manual	Port Scanner (Beta)*
Manual	Technology detection (Alpha)*
A6	A6 Security Misconfiguration
Manual	Spider
Manual	Ajax Spider (Beta)
Manual	Session comparison
Manual	Access Control (Alpha)
Manual	HttpsInfo (Alpha)*
A3	A7 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Automated	Active Scan Rules (Release)
Manual	Fuzzer, combined with the FuzzDb (Release)* files
Manual	Plug-n-Hack (Beta)
A8	A8 Insecure Deserialization
Automated	There are two outstanding issues that are relevant to this Top 10 entry: Insecure deserialization active scanner & Java Serialization Handling
A9	A9 Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
Automated	Passive Scan Rules (Alpha)* and Retire (Alpha)*
Manual	Technology detection (Alpha)*
A10	A10 Insufficient Logging & Monitoring
Automated / Manual	The Spider(s), Active Scanner, Fuzzer, and Access Control addon can all be used to generate traffic and "attacks" which are potential sources/causes for logging and alerting.

* The stared add-ons are not included by default in the full ZAP release but can be downloaded from the ZAP Marketplace via the ‘Manage add-ons’ button on the ZAP main toolbar.