Broken Access Control

Broken Access Control

Hi, in this tutorial we will see Access Control of Extreme Vulnerable Node Application (XVNA).

The main aim is to break the access, in XVNA we found vulnerability of IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference). This could be vulnerable and could be used to find others detail.


We can see how attack performed in the following video.

Extreme vulnerable node application is available at Github https://github.com/vegabird/xvna and you can download it and test in your localhost.

Prevention:

For this, we need to do testing on all functionality of our software/program and authentication level and provide proper validation for each functionality.


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