Posted on May 16, 2017Link
During a recent external penetration test, one of the many servers listening on the default HTTP port 80 caught my eye. The web server threw a HTTP Basic Authentication login prompt immediately upon viewing it, which was unique amongst this particular target network. Some time was spent trying to fingerprint the device and nmap did most of the heavy lifting for...Continue reading
Posted on April 06, 2017Link
Recently, I was working on a web application assessment that acted like a feature filled version of the Damn Vulnerable Web App. That meant there was a lot of XSS of course and a heavy handful of SQL injection vectors. This isn’t a post on how terrible the application was but the interesting way they chose to store their...Continue reading
Posted on November 09, 2016Link
During the course of our assessments, we sometimes come across a vulnerability that allows us to carry out XML eXternal Entity (XXE) Injection attacks. XXE Injection is a type of attack against an application that parses XML input. Although this is a relatively esoteric vulnerability compared to other web application attack vectors, like Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), we make the...Continue reading
