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Burp Suite Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from  Burp Suite Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835081075
Pages 450 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Dr. Sunny Wear Dr. Sunny Wear
Profile icon Dr. Sunny Wear

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Burp Suite 2. Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools 3. Chapter 3: Configuring, Crawling, Auditing, and Reporting with Burp 4. Chapter 4: Assessing Authentication Schemes 5. Chapter 5: Assessing Authorization Checks 6. Chapter 6: Assessing Session Management Mechanisms 7. Chapter 7: Assessing Business Logic 8. Chapter 8: Evaluating Input Validation Checks 9. Chapter 9: Attacking the Client 10. Chapter 10: Working with Burp Suite Macros and Extensions 11. Chapter 11: Implementing Advanced Topic Attacks 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing for session fixation

Session tokens are assigned to users for tracking purposes. This means that when browsing an application as an unauthenticated user, they are assigned a unique session ID, which is usually stored in a cookie. Application developers should always create a new session token after the user logs in to the website. If this session token does not change, the application could be susceptible to a session fixation attack. It is the responsibility of web penetration testers to determine whether this token changes values from an unauthenticated state to an authenticated state.

Session fixation is present when application developers do not invalidate the unauthenticated session token, allowing the user to use the same one after authentication. This scenario allows an attacker with a stolen session token to masquerade as the user.

Getting ready

Using the OWASP Mutillidae II application and the Proxy | HTTP history tab in Burp Suite, as well as Comparer, we...

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