OWASP Testing Guide Table of Contents

Frontispiece

1. Copyright and License
2. Endorsements
3. Trademarks

Introduction

1. Performing An Application Security Review
2. Principles of Testing
3. Testing Techniques Explained

Methodologies Used

1. Secure application design
2. Code Review (See the code review project)
   • Overview
   • Advantages and Disadvantages
3. Penetration Testing
   • Overview
   • Advantages and Disadvantages
4. The Need for a Balanced Approach
5. A Note about Web Application Scanners
6. A Note about Static Source Code Review Tools

Finding Specific Issues In a Non-Technical Manner

1. Threat Modeling Introduction
2. Design Reviews
3. Threat Modeling the Application
4. Policy Reviews
5. Requirements Analysis
6. Developer Interviews and Interaction

Finding Specific Vulnerabilities Using Source Code Review

For code review please see: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Code_Review_Project The code review section has now got its own area.

Manual testing techniques

1. Business logic testing - <TBD>
2. Authentication
3. Cookie manipulation
4. Weak session tokens
5. Session riding test
6. Vulnerable remember password implementation
7. Default or guessable user accounts and empty passwords
8. Application layer Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
9. DoS: Locking Customer Accounts
10. DoS: Buffer Overflows
11. DoS: User Specified Object Allocation
12. DoS: User Input as a Loop Counter
13. DoS: Writing User Provided Data to Disk
14. DoS: Failure to Release Resources
15. DoS: Storing too Much Data in Session
16. Buffer Overflow
17. Test and debug files
18. File extensions handling
19. Old, backup and unreferenced files
20. Defense from Automatic Attacks
21. Configuration Management Infrastructure
22. Sensitive data in URL’s
23. SSL / TLS cipher specifications and requirements for site
24. Web Services Security Testing
25. References
26. Tools

The OWASP Testing Framework

1. Overview
2. Phase 1 — Before Development Begins
   • Phase 1A: Policies and Standards Review
   • Phase 1B: Develop Measurement and Metrics Criteria (Ensure Traceability)
3. Phase 2: During Definition and Design
   • Phase 2A: Security Requirements Review
   • Phase 2B: Design an Architecture Review
   • Phase 2C: Create and Review UML Models
   • Phase 2D: Create and Review Threat Models
4. Phase 3: During Development
   • Phase 3A: Code Walkthroughs
   • Phase 3B: Code Reviews
5. Phase 4: During Deployment
   • Phase 4A: Application Penetration Testing
   • Phase 4B: Configuration Management Testing
6. Phase 5: Maintenance and Operations
   • Phase 5A: Conduct Operational Management Reviews
   • Phase 5B: Conduct Periodic Health Checks
   • Phase 5C: Ensure Change Verification
7. A Typical SDLC Testing Workflow
   • Figure 3: Typical SDLC Testing Workflow.

Appendix A: Testing Tools

1. Source Code Analyzers
2. Open Source / Freeware
   • Commercial
3. Black Box Scanners
   • Open Source
   • Commercial
4. Other Tools
   • Runtime Analysis
   • Binary Analysis
   • Requirements Management

Appendix B: Suggested Reading

1. Whitepapers
2. Books
3. Articles
4. Useful Websites
5. OWASP — http://www.owasp.org

Figures

1. Figure 1: Proportion of Test Effort in SDLC.
2. Figure 2: Proportion of Test Effort According to Test Technique.
3. Figure 3: Typical SDLC Testing Workflow.