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Injection attack is by far the most likely and common type of attack hackers are likely to attempt to explore vulnerabilities in your API. This presentation talks about different classes of attacks people may send against your API parameters. To test how your APIs behave against these attacks, you can use SoapUI’s Security feature as shown here - http://www.soapui.org/Security/getting-started.html
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Prevent Malicious Hacking attacks on your APIs
Michael Giller @GillerMichael
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Security Scans Overview - Injection
SQL Injection: tries to exploit bad database integration coding
XPath Injection: tries to exploit bad XML processing inside your
target service
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Security Scans Overview - Injection
Code Injection: Watch out for those eval() functions!
Log Injection Could be used to stir up false alarms
XML External Entity Injection Vulnerabilities in XML parsing
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Security Scans Overview - XSS
Cross Site Scripting (XSS): enables attackers to inject client-side script into Web
pages viewed by other users.
Used to bypass same origin policy Could be used to plant a Trojan horse, get full access to
user cookies and history, etc
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Security Scans Overview - DoS
Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users– E.g. CyberBunker launched an all-out assault, on a
spam-fighting company Spamhaus
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Security Scans Overview
Check user permissions: Make sure that your users can only access the
information they need to access
Watch out for sequential IDs
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Security Scans Overview (Cont.)
Malformed XML: tries to exploit bad handling of invalid XML on your
server or in your service
XML Bomb : tries to exploit bad handling of malicious XML
request (be careful)
Malicious Attachment: tries to exploit bad handling of attached files
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Security Scans Overview (Cont.)
Fuzzing Scan: generates random input for specified request
parameters for a specified number of requests
Custom Script: allows you to use a script for generating custom
parameter fuzzing values
References:
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• SoapUI team had a great informational “Better Safe Than Sony” webinar discussing security. You can watch it here:
http://www.soapui.org/soapUI-News/watch-yesterdays-webinar.html
• Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) published top 10 most common types of attacks here:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Top_Ten_Cheat_Sheet
• Here’s the attacks particular to REST: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/REST_Security_Cheat_Sheet
