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A detailed guide on discovering and exploiting Mass Assignment vulnerabilities in REST APIs. Users learn to inject unexpected parameters into API requests (POST, PUT, PATCH) to bypass authorization controls, escalate privileges (e.g., changing 'role'), and modify sensitive fields (e.g., 'balance', 'isAdmin') during security assessments and bug bounty hunting.

A comprehensive guide detailing the methodology for identifying and exploiting Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). This technique is critical in authorized penetration testing, allowing attackers to pivot from public-facing applications to internal resources. Use cases include stealing cloud provider metadata (AWS, GCP), scanning private IP ranges, and accessing internal APIs and admin panels.

This guide details the implementation of robust API abuse detection mechanisms. It covers advanced rate limiting techniques, such as the Token Bucket and Sliding Window algorithms, to defend APIs against DDoS attacks, brute force attempts, and credential stuffing. It emphasizes using distributed stores like Redis for accurate, scalable, and adaptive security controls in an API gateway context.

API Security Posture Management (API-SPM) provides continuous, unified visibility into an organization's entire API attack surface. It automatically discovers, classifies, and risk-scores all APIs—including internal, external, and shadow endpoints. By aggregating findings from various sources (DAST, SAST, runtime logs), it helps enforce security policies, detect configuration drift, and maintain compliance across the entire API lifecycle.

This guide details how to implement comprehensive API security testing using the 42Crunch platform. It performs static audits of OpenAPI specifications (API Audit) and dynamic vulnerability scanning (Conformance Scan) against live APIs. Supports integration into CI/CD pipelines to proactively discover OWASP API Top 10 vulnerabilities, enabling a Shift-Left security approach.

This guide details how to implement multi-layered API threat protection using Google Apigee. It covers critical security policies including JSON/XML content validation, OAuth 2.0 enforcement, SpikeArrest rate limiting, and advanced regex patterns to defend against OWASP Top 10 threats. Ideal for establishing robust API security controls and meeting compliance requirements.

This utility implements comprehensive Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) by monitoring compute workloads on cloud instances (EC2/GCE). It provides runtime security controls, detecting process anomalies, unauthorized binary execution, cryptomining activity, and suspicious network connections using AWS and Google APIs. Ideal for establishing robust security postures and meeting compliance requirements.

This skill provides comprehensive knowledge on using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for secure authentication and authorization. It covers implementing various cryptographic signing algorithms (such as HS256, RS256, ES256, and EdDSA), validating signatures, enforcing claim constraints (like expiration time), and implementing robust defenses against common JWT vulnerabilities, including algorithm confusion and the 'none' algorithm attack. Ideal for building secure, scalable web APIs.

This skill covers performing comprehensive vulnerability assessments across diverse environments, including on-premises infrastructure, cloud VMs, and container registries. It leverages standard network protocols like SSH (Linux) and WMI (Windows), coupled with advanced cloud provider APIs for analyzing disk snapshots without requiring local endpoint agents. Ideal for security auditing and compliance checks.

Use RESTler to automate stateful security testing of REST APIs. It processes OpenAPI specifications to generate fuzzing grammars, allowing users to discover complex bugs, such as injection vulnerabilities, resource leaks, and unhandled exceptions (500 errors), by executing diverse sequences of API calls. Essential for robust CI/CD regression testing and proactive API security assessments.

This tool performs comprehensive API inventory and discovery across an organization's environment. It identifies all API endpoints—including documented, undocumented, shadow, and deprecated APIs—by combining passive traffic analysis (HAR files), active scanning, DNS enumeration, and cloud resource auditing. It helps map the complete API attack surface, crucial for security assessments and compliance requirements like PCI-DSS and SOC2.

Utilizes ScoutSuite, an open-source multi-cloud auditing tool, to perform comprehensive, agentless security posture assessments across AWS accounts. It queries various AWS APIs to enumerate all resources, identify misconfigurations (such as publicly exposed S3 buckets or weak IAM policies), and generate detailed, actionable HTML reports for compliance and security auditing.