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Pentesting APIs

You're reading from Pentesting APIs A practical guide to discovering, fingerprinting, and exploiting APIs

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837633166

Length 290 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Maurício Harley

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to API Security

2. Chapter 1: Understanding APIs and their Security Landscape FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Penetration Testing Environment

4. Part 2: API Information Gathering and AuthN/AuthZ Testing

5. Chapter 3: API Reconnaissance and Information Gathering

6. Chapter 4: Authentication and Authorization Testing

7. Part 3: API Basic Attacks

8. Chapter 5: Injection Attacks and Validation Testing

9. Chapter 6: Error Handling and Exception Testing

10. Chapter 7: Denial of Service and Rate-Limiting Testing

11. Part 4: API Advanced Topics

12. Chapter 8: Data Exposure and Sensitive Information Leakage

13. Chapter 9: API Abuse and Business Logic Testing

14. Part 5: API Security Best Practices

15. Chapter 10: Secure Coding Practices for APIs

16. Index

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Technical requirements

Ideally, you should have already created your pentesting environment, as pointed out in Chapter 2. However, if you haven’t, this is not a big deal.

You can use the tools that follow to go through this chapter:

A hypervisor such as Oracle VirtualBox is needed.
A Linux Virtual Machine (VM); I recommend selecting either Ubuntu or Fedora distros because of the vast number of utilities on both.
Postman (https://www.postman.com/downloads/).
OWASP Completely Ridiculous API (crAPI) (https://github.com/OWASP/crAPI/).
OWASP WebGoat (https://owasp.org/www-project-webgoat/).
OWASP ZAP (https://www.zaproxy.org/).
In terms of container engines, use either Docker or Podman, which is a superset of Docker.
If you are going for the standalone version of WebGoat, you will need a Java runtime environment. I suggest selecting OpenJDK. Both Ubuntu and Fedora have packages for it. Other distros might have it as well.
You will need at...

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Authors (1)

Maurício Harley

Maurício Harley

Maurício Harley holds an MSc in cybersecurity, a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, and a technologist degree in telematics. He's CISSP and double CCIE certified. He has written offensive security articles for some magazines. He has 30 years of combined experience, in areas such as application security and forensic analysis. He has delivered security talks at Brazilian, European, and Latin American events, such as RootDay, RootSec, AWS LATAM Security Talks, AWS Security Workshops, EMEA AeroSpace Smart Factory, and OWASP LATAM@Home. He has participated in various security projects in Latin America and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), delivering professional services in Angola, Austria, Bahrain, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

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