The document discusses various OWASP projects beyond the OWASP Top 10, detailing tools and frameworks such as WebGoat for hands-on security training, OWTF for efficient penetration testing, and ASVS for application security verification. It highlights issues in security training and management, presenting solutions to improve application security practices and awareness among developers. Additionally, it introduces gamification through OWASP Cornucopia to help teams identify security requirements during development.

1. OWASP Projects: beyond Top 10
OWASP Poland
Wroclaw Meetup #5
17.02.2017

2. About us
• Alexander Antukh
• OWASP Poland Board
Member
• Head of Product Security at
• @c0rdis

3. About us
• Marek Puchalski
• OWASP Poland member
• Developer and Security
Consultant at Capgemini
• https://marek.puchal.ski

4. About us
• Pawel Rzepa
• Security Engineer in Intive
• Contributor in OWASP MSTG
(Mobile Security Testing
Guide)

5. About us
• Andrii Sygida
• OWASP Poland almost member
• Application security specialist at

6. About us
• Daniel Ramirez
• OWASP Member
• Security Specialist in EY
• Hands-on VA experience
in the different kinds of
apps.

7. Thank you for the support!

8. Motivation
• Top 10 is a de-facto standard in Webappsec world
• OWASP is mostly associated with it …
• but there are many more!
As of 2016, there are 133 different projects, which can help you
whether you are on attacker’s or defender’s parts of the
barricades!

9. Program for today
ZAP WebGoat OWTF

10. Program for today
(M)ASVS CheatSheets Cornucopia
SKF Pipeline Testing Guides

11. Let the fun begin!

12. Agenda
• Problem 1: efficient security training
• Solution: WebGoat
• Problem 2: efficient management of multiple
penetration testing tasks
• Solution: Offensive Web Testing Framework

13. Problem of efficient security training
…and XSS
allows you
injecting such
horrifying
pop up
windows!!!
Security awareness
trainings for
developers are quite
common, but reality
shows they are still
ineffective :(

14. Problem of efficient security training

15. What about…
Finally a security
training which isn’t
an online course to
fly through and
forget!
Internal course
that is free and
isn’t a corpo-
bullshit?! Cannot
believe that…
…arranging internal hands-
on labs for developers and
testers, where they can
deeply understand
vulnerabilities by finding and
fixing them?

17. WebGoat: few words about
• A deliberately insecure Java-based
application, which allows you to
test common vulnerabilities
• 50+ lessons
• After finding a vulnerability, learn
to fix it!
• Easy manageable lessons via
plugins
• You can create your own lessons
and easily customize a content and
language
…or .Net-based:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/
WebGoatFor.Net
WebGoat: few words about
• A deliberately insecure Java-based (or .Net based:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/WebGoatFor.Net)
application, which allows you to test common
vulnerabilities
• 50+ lessons
• After finding a vulnerability, learn to fix it!
• Easy manageable lessons via plugins
• You can create your own lessons and easily customize a
content and language

18. Not only web apps…
• Ruby on Rails: OWASP Rails Goat Project
• PHP: OWASP WebGoatPHP
• Node.js: OWASP Node_js Goat Project
• Android: OWASP GoatDroid Project
• iOS: OWASP iGoat Project

19. WebGoat: how to run?
• Prerequisites: Java VM 1.8
• To start just follow these commands:
$> wget
https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/releases/download
/7.0.1/webgoat-container-7.0.1-war-exec.jar
$> java -jar java -jar webgoat-container-7.0.1-war-exec.jar
• Open in you browser: http://localhost:8080/WebGoat/
• That’s all!

20. WebGoat: first view

21. WebGoat: lessons & labs

22. WebGoat: creating your own lesson
• Plugin = lesson
• Create NewLesson.java:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/
How_to_write_a_new_WebGoat_les
son
• Plugin is just a folder, which
follows this format 

23. WebGoat: useful links
• Project:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebGoat
_Project
• Documentation:
https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat

24. Problem: how to efficiently manage
outputs from many different applications?
• Each pentester uses many different applications (vuln scanner,
web crawler, SSL/TLS tests, session management tests)
• Running each of those tests consumes time, right?
• It’s easy to automate those tasks, but analysing a consolidated
output is much more difficult :(
• And finally you have to form a readable report from all those
tests…
• …oooh… :(

25. Typical penetration testing process
<which generates lots of output>
<cpy/pst interesting parts>
…of course in notepad ;)
(…)
<runs a lot of tests>

27. • A goal of OWTF is to use penetration testing time as efficient as possible.
It’s done by:
• Running different tools (Nikto/Arachni/w3af/etc)
• Running direct tests (header searches/session tests/etc)
• Knowledge repository (OWASP mapping/resource links)
• Helping human analysis (flag severity/manage output)
• In other words OWTF provides optimal balance between automation and
human analysis
OWTF: Idea of the project

28. • Want to quickly start? Follow this one-liner:
$> wget -N
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owtf
/bootstrap-script/master/bootstrap.sh;
bash bootstrap.sh
OWTF: Installation

29. OWTF

30. OWTF: Set a target

31. sends normal traffic to target
active vulnerability probing
probing services (e.g. FTP/SMB )
assist manual testing
searches on HTTP transactions test via 3rd parties
(no traffic to target)
Testing web apps
Testing network services
OWTF: Choose plugins and run!

33. OWTF: Useful links
• Project:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_OWTF
• Documentation:
http://docs.owtf.org/en/latest/
• Online passive scanner:
https://owtf.github.io/online-passive-scanner

34. • Use OWASP WebGoat to provide efficient security trainings in
your company.
• Use OWASP OWTF to automate your penetration testing tasks. It
allows you for easy test’s output analyse and create reports in a
fast way.
Summary

36. OWASP ASVS
(Application Security Verification
Standard)

37. SANS Institute, May 2015, State of Application Security: Closing the Gap
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/analyst/2015-state-application-security-closing-gap-35942
Application Security Standards in use

38. OWASP Application Security Verification Standard
(ASVS) is a list of application security requirements or
tests that can be used by architects, developers, testers,
security professionals, and even consumers to define
what a secure application is.
In short

39. Example requirements

40. Example requirements
• Architecture and design
• Input handling
• Data protection
• Session management
• Error handling
• Business logic
• Configuration
• Web services
• 19 sections in total
• Every chapter has
control objective, reqs
and references

41. First introduced: June 2008
ASVS v1.0: 2009
ASVS v2.0: 2014
ASVS v3.0: 2015
Current version: v3.0.1 (July 2016)
History

42. Idea behind
• Use as a metric - provide application developers and
application owners with a yardstick with which to
assess the degree of trust that can be placed in their
Web applications
• Use as guidance - provide guidance to security control
developers as to what to build into security controls in
order to satisfy application security requirements
• Use during procurement - provide a basis for
specifying application security verification
requirements in contracts

43. Application Security Verification Levels
• ASVS Level 3 – for
applications that „shoot
missiles” ;)
• ASVS Level 2 – for
applications that contain
sensitive data
• ASVS Level 1 – for all
software

44. Benefits for you
• Helps you to develop and maintain secure applications
• Contains clear and ready-to-use high level checklists
and use cases
• Allows you as well as security services, vendors, and
consumers to align requirements and offerings

45. More ideas
• Train your developers in AppSec
• Take your standard software architecture and prepare
standard security solutions
Open Application Standard Platform (OASP)
https://oasp.github.io/

46. Projects based on ASVS
• Secure Knowledge Framework - training developers in
writing secure code and providing a knowledge base of
secure design patterns
• Zed Attack Proxy - easy to use integrated penetration testing
tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications, both
automatically and manually
• Cornucopia - mechanism in the form of a card game to assist
software development teams identify security requirements
in Agile, conventional and formal development processes. It
is language, platform and technology agnostic.

47. Useful links
• Project:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Application_Sec
urity_Verification_Standard_Project
• Excel checklist:
https://github.com/OWASP/ASVS/blob/master/ASVS-excel-v3.0.1.xlsx
• OWASP ASVS mailing list
https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-application-security-
verification-standard

48. OWASP MASVS
(Mobile Application Security Verification
Standard)

49. Mobile web usage overtakes desktop for first time
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/11/01/mobile-web-usage-overtakes-desktop-for-first-time/
Current state

50. In short
• There is a significant difference between security
assurance of web and mobile applications
• MASVS is to mobiles, what ASVS is to web
• The project is work in progress (v0.9.2 is currently
available)

51. Example

52. Mobile Security Verification Levels
Following assurance levels are possible: L1, L1 + L2, but also
L1 + R and L1 + L2 + R.

53. Requirements
• Architecture, Design and Threat Modelling
• Data Storage and Privacy
• Cryptography
• Authentication and Session Management
• Network Communication
• Environmental Interaction
• Code Quality and Build Setting
• Resiliency Against Reverse Engineering

54. Useful links
• Homepage:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Mobile_Security_Te
sting_Guide
• Github:
https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-masvs

56. OWASP Cornucopia

57. OWASP Cornucopia is a mechanism in the form of a card game
to assist software development teams identify security
requirements in Agile, conventional and formal development
processes. It is language, platform and technology agnostic.
Cornucopia is based on the concepts and game ideas from
Microsoft SDL EoP game and OWASP Secure Coding Practices
Guide.
OWASP Cornucopia Ecommerce Website Edition is in the
current Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council
information supplement PCI DSS E-commerce Guidelines v2,
January 2013
In short

58. Idea behind
• Help development teams to identify application
security requirements and develop security-based
user stories
• Aimed at first place at Agile-based methodologies
• Gamification approach to threat modeling

59. Suite
Rank
Threat
References:
- Secure Coding Practices
- ASVS
- AppSensor project
- Common Attack Pattern (CAPEC)
- Software Assurance Forum for
Excellence in Code (SAFECode)
Cornucopia card

60. Cornucopia rules
• Prepare everything (deck, cards, data flow diagram,
prizes…)
• Deal all the cards
• Play a round – every player has to utilize one card
of the selected suit. Highest played card in the suit
wins and starts next round until all cards are played
• Count points and define the winner
• Closure: review all threats and matching security
requirements
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Cornucopia#tab=How_to_Play

61. Cornucopia rules
Playing a card:
• each player reads it out loud
• explains how the threat could apply (or not) to his
application
• player gets a point for attacks that work, and the
group thinks it is an actionable bug
At this point we don’t think of mitigations and don’t
exclude a threat just because it is believed it is already
mitigated – the card should be recorded on the score
sheet anyway

62. Cornucopia rules

63. Cornucopia deck
• Clear who said what
• Exact descriptions of
threats
• Actionable items
• Developers know
precisely what
functionality is affected

64. Benefits for you
• Teaching developers on how to
identify and assess
vulnerabilities on every sprint
• Training sessions for developers
• Raising awareness in application
security field in your
organization

65. Useful links
• Project:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Cornucopia
• Rules explained on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Y0akWj31k
• Presentation from OWASP EEE
(Hungary):
http://www.slideshare.net/OWASPEEE/hungary-i-play-jack-
of-information-disclosure

66. OWASP SKF
(Security Knowledge Framework)

67. OWASP SKF is a fully open-source Python-Flask expert system
web-application that uses the OWASP Application Security
Verification Standard and code examples and can be used to
support developers in pre-development (security by design) as
well as after code is released (OWASP ASVS Level 1-3)
„we decided to develop a proof of concept framework in order
to create a guide system available for all developers so they
can develop applications secure by design”
In short
http://secureby.design

68. Idea behind
The 4 Core usage of SKF:
• Security Requirements ASVS for development and third party vendor
applications
• Security knowledge reference (code examples/ knowledge base items)
• Security is part of design with the pre-development functionality in SKF
• Security post-development functionality in SKF for verification with the
ASVS

69. Installation
Super-easy! Supported ways to install it:
• Automated installation with Chef
• AWS by using CloudFormation
• … or manually as you would do with any other
Python project: sudo pip install owasp-skf
https://github.com/blabla1337/skf-flask#installing

70. https://demo.securityknowledgeframework.org
admin : test-skf
Overview

71. SKF: Projects
That’s what you start with for the very beginning

72. SKF: Pre-development stage
Definition of a technology stack
Adding different functionalities to the system:
• Access controls / login systems
• Registration
• Submit forms
• External XML files
• File uploads
• SQL commands…

73. SKF: Pre-development stage
First assessment and security recommendations
for selected functionality

74. SKF: Post-development stage
• Double-check your app by means of pre-defined or
custom checklists
• ASVS-based checklists for different levels of criticality of
the application are auto-generated after pre-
development stage!
• After providing answers to clear and simple questions,
reports with failed items are ready to be downloaded
and prioritized

75. SKF: Post-development stage
Failed items and recommendations can be viewed in
the application, or exported for further processing

76. SKF: Knowledge Base
• „Use info, do not get hacked, profit!”
• Multiple options of secure design patterns with
examples
• Gives a good understanding for developers not only
about what to fix but also why to do so

77. SKF: Knowledge Base
Descriptions, solutions and many
different language-agnostic patterns

78. SKF: Code examples
• We were talking about generic secure patterns so far
• Code examples with extensive comments provide
ready-to-use solutions on how to do things right!
• Currently supported languages: PHP, .NET and Java
(soon ☺)

79. SKF: Code examples
Can be reused directly, and have
extensive comments to know
how and why to fix an issue

80. SKF: Improve yourself!
• Cherry on top of a pie: you can easily add your use-cases
and adjust it as you like!
• Checklists, knowledge base and code examples must
follow the markdown and appear immediately in your
panel
Directory/path traversal <-- name as seen in the drop-down head
-------
**Example:** <-- Bold separator telling where the example starts
/*
Your code has to indent the 4 spaces(tab) in order for the markdown engine to know it has to
interpreted this as written code
*/

81. Benefits for you
• Guide to secure programming
• Secuity by design, not implementing
afterwards
• Security awareness
• Will inform about threats even before one
wrote a single line of code
• Central place for security reference
• Provides information applicable for specific
needs on the spot

82. Useful links
• Project:
http://secureby.design
• Source code:
https://github.com/blabla1337/skf-flask
• SKF workshop (DevOpsDays 2015):
https://www.owasp.org/images/5/54/Skf-design-
workshop.pptx.pdf

84. Appsec Pipeline

85. Software development lifecycle today

86. The AppSec pipeline project
• Place to gather together information,
techniques and tools to create your own
AppSec pipeline
• Right now: AppSec pipeline patterns and tools
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_AppSec_Pipeline

87. Example of workflow
- Code written
- Code committed to repository
- Unit test the code
- Package the code for deployment
- Integration testing
- Deploy code in production

88. Pipeline design patterns

89. Pipeline design patterns

90. Security tools evaluation criteria
• API is the first
• Pipeline position
• Cloud scalable
• Runs as a service
• Client libraries
• CI/CD plugins

92. What is OWASP ZAP?
• Webapp security testing tool
• Free and open source
• Written in Java → cross platform
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/ZAP

93. OWASP ZAP Features
• GUI, headless and REST API
• Intercepting proxy
• Classic and AJAX spiders
• Passive and active scanning
• … and of course can be extended via addons!

94. Addons

95. How can it all help me???

96. ZAP for pentests
• Configure your browser to use ZAP as a proxy
• Explore the application manually
• Use the spider to find other content and input points
• See what security issues the passive scanner has found
• Use the active scanner to find vulnerabilities
• Do manual pentesting 😎

97. ZAP as a part of your appsec pipeline
The baseline scan
• Simple inline security control
• Mass scan of big number of
targets
• Post release (production) control
Full scan
• Regular heavy asynchronous
scan
• More power and integration into
your infrastructure and
processes

98. The baseline scan
• Uses Docker
• Only passive scanning
• Time limited spider of target
• By default warns on all issues:
– Missing / incorrect security headers like CSP
– Cookie problems
– Information / error disclosure
– Missing CSRF tokens etc.

99. The baseline scan example
$ docker run -t owasp/zap2docker-weekly zap-baseline.py -t https://oxdef.info
...
Total of 81 URLs
PASS: Cookie No HttpOnly Flag [10010]
...
WARN: Web Browser XSS Protection Not Enabled [10016] x 52
https://oxdef.info
...
FAIL: 0 WARN: 5 INFO: 0 IGNORE: 0 PASS: 21

101. 1 n33d m0re p0w3r!
• REST API is your choice 😏
• zap.sh -daemon -host 0.0.0.0 -port 8080
• http(s)://zap/<format>/<component>/<operation>/<
op name>[/?<params>]
• Also available in Docker image owasp/zap2docker-*
• Maps closely to the UI / code
• JSON, HTML and XML formats
• Clients in: Java, Python, NodeJS, .Net, PHP, Go ...

102. Simple scan using API and client in
Python
target = 'http://some-target.com'
zap = ZAPv2()
scanid = zap.spider.scan(target)
while(int(zap.spider.status(scanid)) < 100):
print 'Spider progress %: ' + zap.spider.status(scanid)
scanid = zap.ascan.scan(target)
while(int(zap.ascan.status(scanid)) < 100):
print 'Scan progress %: ' + zap.ascan.status(scanid)
pprint(zap.core.alerts())

103. Cheat Sheet Series

104. Cheat Sheet Series

105. Cheat Sheet Series
• «The OWASP Cheat Sheet Series was created to
provide a concise collection of high value information
on specific web application security topics»
• You can browse it online or get as PDF book
• Mostly fresh and actual topics
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cheat_Sheets

106. 3rd party JavaScript management
The invocation of 3rd party JS code in a web application
requires consideration for 3 risks in particular:
• The loss of control over changes to the client application
• The execution of arbitrary code on client systems
• The disclosure or leakage of sensitive information to 3rd parties
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/3rd_Party_Javascript_
Management_Cheat_Sheet

107. XSS Prevention
RULE #3 - JavaScript Escape Before Inserting Untrusted
Data into JavaScript Data Values
Except for alphanumeric characters, escape all characters less
than 256 with the xHH format to prevent switching out of the
data value into the script context or into another attribute.
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_(Cross_Site_Scrip
ting)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet

108. XXE Prevention
Libxml2: the Enum xmlParserOption should not have
the following options defined:
• XML_PARSE_NOENT: Expands entities and substitutes them with
replacement text
• XML_PARSE_DTDLOAD: Load the external DT
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_
(XXE)_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet

109. Featured cheat sheets
• Clickjacking Defense
• Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Prevention
• Deserialization
• DOM based XSS Prevention
• REST Security
• Virtual Patching

110. Summary
• OWASP AppSec Pipeline helps you with choosing
suitable tools and building your own AppSec pipeline
• OWASP ZAP is one of such tools. Using it you can
make manual pentest of web app or automate web
app security testing in SDL
• OWASP Cheat Sheets helps you in specific areas of
application security

112. Testing Guide

113. OWASP Testing Guide Versions
• V1 – December 2004
• V2 – 25th December 2005
• V3 – 15th September 2008
– Configuration Management and Authorization Testing
sections
• V4 – 2014
– Identity Management Testing
– Error Handling
– Cryptography
– Client Side Testing

114. Purpose
• The OWASP Testing Guide includes a "best
practice" penetration testing framework
which users can implement in their own
organizations and
• a "low level" penetration testing guide that
describes techniques for testing most
common web application and services security
issues.

115. Typical Testing Guide chapter
• Summary
• How to test
• Tools
• Remediation
• References
Fingerprint Web
Application
Framework

116. Why to test
• The steps that need to be undertaken to build
and operate a testing program on web apps.
• Effective testing program:
– People
– Process
– Technology
• Testing just the technical implementation of an
application will not uncover management or
operational vulnerabilities that could be present

117. When to test
• Don’t test software until it has already been
created and is in the deployment phase of its
life cycle  ineffective and cost-prohibitive
practice
• One of the best methods to prevent security
bugs from appearing in production
applications is to improve the SDLC by
including security in each of its phases

118. Example Testing guide XXE

119. Summary
• Constant work in progress
• Anybody is welcome to collaborate
• Best practice for web penetration tests

120. OWASP Mobile Security
Testing Guide

121. OWASP MSTG Leaders
• MSTG was initiated by Milan Singh Thakur in
2015. The original document was hosted on
Google Drive  Github
• Bernhard Mueller (2016)
• Sven Schleier (2016)

122. OWASP MSTG
• MSTG is a manual for testing the security of
mobile apps. It describes technical processes
for verifying the controls listed in the MASVS
• MSTG is meant to provide a baseline set of
test cases for black-box and white-box security
tests, and to help ensure completeness and
consistency of the tests

123. MSTG Structure
• High-Level Guides
– Mobile Platforms Overview
– Security Testing Processes, Tools and Techniques
• Complementary
– Security Testing in the Application Development
Lifecycle
– Tools

124. MSTG Structure

125. Typical MSTG chapter
• Summary
• White-box testing / Black-box testing
• Remediation
• References
• Tools

126. Typical MSTG chapter
Practical examples of
how to test it right,
with tools, samples
and references

127. Summary 
• Constant work in progress
• Anybody is welcome to collaborate
• Best practice for mobile penetration tests

128. References
• https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_T
esting_Guide_v4_Table_of_Contents
• https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-mstg

129. Foreword

130. Foreword
• There are many projects happening right now (very
good examples are MASVS and MSTG)
• Due to a huge front of work every small help is
valuable
• Do something good today – contribute to OWASP
Projects 