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 Infrastructure Configuration Management Testing - Infrastructure Configuration management weakness

OWASP-CM-004 - 4.3.4 Application Configuration Management Testing - Application Configuration management weakness

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, HTTP Verb

Business logic testing

OWASP-BL-001 - 4.4 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 - 4.5.4 Brute Force Testing - Credentials Brute forcing

OWASP-AT-005 - 4.5.5 Testing for bypassing authentication schema - Bypassing authentication schema

OWASP-AT-006 - 4.5.6 Testing for vulnerable remember password and pwd reset - Vulnerable remember password, weak pwd reset

OWASP-AT-007 - 4.5.7 Testing for Logout and Browser Cache Management - - Logout function not properly implemented, browser cache weakness

OWASP-AT-008 - 4.5.8 Testing for CAPTCHA - Weak Captcha implementation

OWASP-AT-009 - 4.5.9 Testing Multiple Factors Authentication - Weak Multiple Factors Authentication

OWASP-AT-010 - 4.5.10 Testing for Race Conditions - Race Conditions vulnerability

Authorization Testing

OWASP-AZ-001 - 4.6.1 Testing for Path Traversal - Path Traversal

OWASP-AZ-002 - 4.6.2 Testing for bypassing authorization schema - Bypassing authorization schema

OWASP-AZ-003 - 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, Weak Session Token

OWASP-SM-002 - 4.7.2 Testing for Cookies attributes - Cookies are set not ‘HTTP Only’, ‘Secure’, and no time validity

OWASP-SM-003 - 4.7.3 Testing for Session Fixation - Session Fixation

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 Splitting, Smuggling

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 - 4.8.5 SQL Injection - SQL Injection

OWASP-DV-006 - 4.8.6 LDAP Injection - LDAP Injection

OWASP-DV-007 - 4.8.7 ORM Injection - ORM Injection

OWASP-DV-008 - 4.8.8 XML Injection - XML Injection

OWASP-DV-009 - 4.8.9 SSI Injection - SSI Injection

OWASP-DV-010 - 4.8.10 XPath Injection - XPath Injection

OWASP-DV-011 - 4.8.11 IMAP/SMTP Injection - IMAP/SMTP Injection

OWASP-DV-012 - 4.8.12 Code Injection - Code Injection

OWASP-DV-013 - 4.8.13 OS Commanding - OS Commanding

OWASP-DV-014 - 4.8.14 Buffer overflow - Buffer overflow

OWASP-DV-015 - 4.8.15 Incubated vulnerability - Incubated vulnerability

Denial of Service Testing

OWASP-DS-001 - 4.9.1 Testing for SQL Wildcard Attacks - SQL Wildcard vulnerability

OWASP-DS-002 - 4.9.2 Locking Customer Accounts - Locking Customer Accounts

OWASP-DS-003 - 4.9.3 Testing for DoS Buffer Overflows - Buffer Overflows

OWASP-DS-004 - 4.9.4 User Specified Object Allocation - User Specified Object Allocation

OWASP-DS-005 - 4.9.5 User Input as a Loop Counter - User Input as a Loop Counter

OWASP-DS-006 - 4.9.6 Writing User Provided Data to Disk - Writing User Provided Data to Disk

OWASP-DS-007 - 4.9.7 Failure to Release Resources - Failure to Release Resources

OWASP-DS-008 - 4.9.8 Storing too Much Data in Session - Storing too Much Data in Session

Web Services Testing

OWASP-WS-001 - 4.10.1 WS Information Gathering - N.A.

OWASP-WS-002 - 4.10.2 Testing WSDL - WSDL Weakness

OWASP-WS-003 - 4.10.3 XML Structural Testing - Weak XML Structure

OWASP-WS-004 - 4.10.4 XML content-level Testing - XML content-level

OWASP-WS-005 - 4.10.5 HTTP GET parameters/REST Testing - WS HTTP GET parameters/REST

OWASP-WS-006 - 4.10.6 Naughty SOAP attachments - WS Naughty SOAP attachments

OWASP-WS-007 - 4.10.7 Replay Testing - WS Replay Testing

Ajax Testing

OWASP-AJ-001 - 4.11.1 AJAX Vulnerabilities - N.A.

OWASP-AJ-002 - 4.11.2 AJAX Testing - AJAX weakness