Search icon
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
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 directory traversal

Directory traversal attacks are attempts to discover or force-browse unauthorized web pages usually designed for administrators of the application. If an application does not configure the web document root properly and does not include proper authorization checks on the server side for each page accessed, a directory traversal vulnerability may exist. This type of weakness allows an attack to perform system command injection exploitation or arbitrary code execution.

Getting ready

Using OWASP Mutillidae II as our target application, let’s determine whether it contains any directory traversal vulnerabilities.

Ensure that Burp Suite and the OWASP BWA VM are running, that Burp Suite is configured in the Firefox browser (or use the Burp Suite browser), and that you are viewing the OWASP BWA applications.

How to do it...

  1. From the OWASP BWA landing page, click the link to the OWASP Mutillidae II application.
  2. Open the login screen...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}