Computer Science > Cryptography and Security
arXiv:2405.01111 (cs)
[Submitted on 2 May 2024 (v1), last revised 4 May 2024 (this version, v2)]
Title:Mining REST APIs for Potential Mass Assignment Vulnerabilities
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View PDFHTML (experimental)Abstract:REST APIs have a pivotal role in accessing protected resources. Despite the availability of security testing tools, mass assignment vulnerabilities are common in REST APIs, leading to unauthorized manipulation of sensitive data. We propose a lightweight approach to mine the REST API specifications and identify operations and attributes that are prone to mass assignment. We conducted a preliminary study on 100 APIs and found 25 prone to this vulnerability. We confirmed nine real vulnerable operations in six APIs.
| Comments: | EASE 2024 |
| Subjects: | Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2405.01111 [cs.CR] |
| (orarXiv:2405.01111v2 [cs.CR] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.01111 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite | |
| Related DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3661167.3661204 DOI(s) linking to related resources |
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From: Mohammad Ghafari [view email][v1] Thu, 2 May 2024 09:19:32 UTC (152 KB)
[v2] Sat, 4 May 2024 15:36:16 UTC (151 KB)
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