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Dr. Sunny Wear
Dr. Sunny Wear
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Dr. Sunny Wear

Dr. Sunny Wear is a web security architect and penetration tester. She provides secure coding classes, creates software, and performs penetration testing on web/API and mobile applications. Sunny has more than 25 years of hands-on software programming, architecture, and security experience and holds a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity. She is a content creator on Pluralsight, with three courses on Burp Suite. She is a published author, a developer of mobile apps such as Burp Tool Buddy, and a content creator on courses related to web security and penetration testing. She regularly speaks and holds classes at security conferences such as Defcon, Hackfest, and BSides.
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Testing for command injection

Command injection involves an attacker attempting to invoke a system command, normally performed in a terminal session, within an HTTP request instead. Many web applications allow system commands through the UI for troubleshooting purposes. A web penetration tester must test whether the web page allows further commands on the system that should normally be restricted.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need the SecLists payload for Unix commands on a Unix- or Linux-based operating system:

https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/blob/master/Fuzzing/UnixAttacks.fuzzdb.txt

Download the SecLists payload from GitHub:

https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists

Using the OWASP Mutillidae II DNS Lookup page, let’s determine whether the application is vulnerable to command injection attacks.

How to do it...

  1. From the OWASP Mutillidae II menu, select DNS Lookup by navigating to OWASP 2013 | A1-Injection (Other) | Command...
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Dr. Sunny Wear

Dr. Sunny Wear is a web security architect and penetration tester. She provides secure coding classes, creates software, and performs penetration testing on web/API and mobile applications. Sunny has more than 25 years of hands-on software programming, architecture, and security experience and holds a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity. She is a content creator on Pluralsight, with three courses on Burp Suite. She is a published author, a developer of mobile apps such as Burp Tool Buddy, and a content creator on courses related to web security and penetration testing. She regularly speaks and holds classes at security conferences such as Defcon, Hackfest, and BSides.
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