OWASP Web Application Security Testing Checklist

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a not-for-profit group that helps organizations develop, purchase, and maintain software applications that can be trusted.  Use this companion checklist for Section 4 of the OWASP Web Application Security Testing framework. Intended as record for audits.
 
How often should this be used?
Ad hoc on new application deployment or major infrastructure change.
 
Attribution:
Adapted from the OWASP v4 Testing Guide
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OWASP Web Application Security Testing

4.1 Introduction and Objectives

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4.2 Information Gathering

4.2.1 Conduct Search Engine Discovery and Reconnaissance for Information Leakage (OTG-INFO-001)
4.2.2 Fingerprint Web Server (OTG-INFO-002)
4.2.3 Review Webserver Metafiles for Information Leakage (OTG-INFO-003)
4.2.4 Enumerate Applications on Webserver (OTG-INFO-004)
4.2.5 Review Webpage Comments and Metadata for Information Leakage (OTG-INFO-005)
4.2.6 Identify application entry points (OTG-INFO-006)
4.2.7 Map execution paths through application (OTG-INFO-007)
4.2.8 Fingerprint Web Application Framework (OTG-INFO-008)
4.2.9 Fingerprint Web Application (OTG-INFO-009)
4.2.10 Map Application Architecture (OTG-INFO-010)

4.3 Configuration and Deployment Management Testing

4.3.1 Test Network/Infrastructure Configuration (OTG-CONFIG-001)
4.3.2 Test Application Platform Configuration (OTG-CONFIG-002)
4.3.3 Test File Extensions Handling for Sensitive Information (OTG-CONFIG-003)
4.3.4 Review Old, Backup and Unreferenced Files for Sensitive Information (OTG-CONFIG-004)
4.3.5 Enumerate Infrastructure and Application Admin Interfaces (OTG-CONFIG-005)
4.3.6 Test HTTP Methods (OTG-CONFIG-006)
4.3.7 Test HTTP Strict Transport Security (OTG-CONFIG-007)
4.3.8 Test RIA cross domain policy (OTG-CONFIG-008)

4.4 Identity Management Testing

4.4.1 Test Role Definitions (OTG-IDENT-001)
4.4.2 Test User Registration Process (OTG-IDENT-002)
4.4.3 Test Account Provisioning Process (OTG-IDENT-003)
4.4.4 Testing for Account Enumeration and Guessable User Account (OTG-IDENT-004)
4.4.5 Testing for Weak or unenforced username policy (OTG-IDENT-005)

4.5 Authentication Testing

4.5.1 Testing for Credentials Transported over an Encrypted Channel (OTG-AUTHN-001)
4.5.2 Testing for default credentials (OTG-AUTHN-002)
4.5.3 Testing for Weak lock out mechanism (OTG-AUTHN-003)
4.5.4 Testing for bypassing authentication schema (OTG-AUTHN-004)
4.5.5 Test remember password functionality (OTG-AUTHN-005)
4.5.6 Testing for Browser cache weakness (OTG-AUTHN-006)
4.5.7 Testing for Weak password policy (OTG-AUTHN-007)
4.5.8 Testing for Weak security question/answer (OTG-AUTHN-008)
4.5.9 Testing for weak password change or reset functionalities (OTG-AUTHN-009)
4.5.10 Testing for Weaker authentication in alternative channel (OTG-AUTHN-010)

4.6 Authorization Testing

4.6.1 Testing Directory traversal/file include (OTG-AUTHZ-001)
4.6.2 Testing for bypassing authorization schema (OTG-AUTHZ-002)
4.6.3 Testing for Privilege Escalation (OTG-AUTHZ-003)
4.6.4 Testing for Insecure Direct Object References (OTG-AUTHZ-004)

4.7 Session Management Testing

4.7.1 Testing for Bypassing Session Management Schema (OTG-SESS-001)
4.7.2 Testing for Cookies attributes (OTG-SESS-002)
4.7.3 Testing for Session Fixation (OTG-SESS-003)
4.7.4 Testing for Exposed Session Variables (OTG-SESS-004)
4.7.5 Testing for Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (OTG-SESS-005)
4.7.6 Testing for logout functionality (OTG-SESS-006)
4.7.7 Test Session Timeout (OTG-SESS-007)
4.7.8 Testing for Session puzzling (OTG-SESS-008)

4.8 Input Validation Testing

4.8.1 Testing for Reflected Cross Site Scripting (OTG-INPVAL-001)
4.8.2 Testing for Stored Cross Site Scripting (OTG-INPVAL-002)
4.8.3 Testing for HTTP Verb Tampering (OTG-INPVAL-003)
4.8.4 Testing for HTTP Parameter pollution (OTG-INPVAL-004)
4.8.5 Testing for SQL Injection (OTG-INPVAL-005)
4.8.5.1 Oracle Testing
4.8.5.2 MySQL Testing
4.8.5.3 SQL Server Testing
4.8.5.4 Testing PostgreSQL (from OWASP BSP)
4.8.5.5 MS Access Testing
4.8.5.6 Testing for NoSQL injection
4.8.6 Testing for LDAP Injection (OTG-INPVAL-006)
4.8.7 Testing for ORM Injection (OTG-INPVAL-007)
4.8.8 Testing for XML Injection (OTG-INPVAL-008)
4.8.9 Testing for SSI Injection (OTG-INPVAL-009)
4.8.10 Testing for XPath Injection (OTG-INPVAL-010)
4.8.11 IMAP/SMTP Injection (OTG-INPVAL-011)
4.8.12 Testing for Code Injection (OTG-INPVAL-012)
4.8.12.1 Testing for Local File Inclusion
4.8.12.2 Testing for Remote File Inclusion
4.8.13 Testing for Command Injection (OTG-INPVAL-013)
4.8.14 Testing for Buffer overflow (OTG-INPVAL-014)
4.8.14.1 Testing for Heap overflow
4.8.14.2 Testing for Stack overflow
4.8.14.3 Testing for Format string
4.8.15 Testing for incubated vulnerabilities (OTG-INPVAL-015)
4.8.16 Testing for HTTP Splitting/Smuggling (OTG-INPVAL-016)

4.9 Testing for Error Handling

4.9.1 Analysis of Error Codes (OTG-ERR-001)
4.9.2 Analysis of Stack Traces (OTG-ERR-002)

4.10 Testing for weak Cryptography

4.10.1 Testing for Weak SSL/TLS Ciphers, Insufficient Transport Layer Protection (OTG-CRYPST-001)
4.10.2 Testing for Padding Oracle (OTG-CRYPST-002)
4.10.3 Testing for Sensitive information sent via unencrypted channels (OTG-CRYPST-003)

4.11 Business Logic Testing

4.11.1 Test Business Logic Data Validation (OTG-BUSLOGIC-001)
4.11.2 Test Ability to Forge Requests (OTG-BUSLOGIC-002)
4.11.3 Test Integrity Checks (OTG-BUSLOGIC-003)
4.11.4 Test for Process Timing (OTG-BUSLOGIC-004)
4.11.5 Test Number of Times a Function Can be Used Limits (OTG-BUSLOGIC-005)
4.11.6 Testing for the Circumvention of Work Flows (OTG-BUSLOGIC-006)
4.11.7 Test Defenses Against Application Mis-use (OTG-BUSLOGIC-007)
4.11.8 Test Upload of Unexpected File Types (OTG-BUSLOGIC-008)
4.11.9 Test Upload of Malicious Files (OTG-BUSLOGIC-009)

4.12 Client Side Testing

4.12.1 Testing for DOM based Cross Site Scripting (OTG-CLIENT-001)
4.12.2 Testing for JavaScript Execution (OTG-CLIENT-002)
4.12.3 Testing for HTML Injection (OTG-CLIENT-003)
4.12.4 Testing for Client Side URL Redirect (OTG-CLIENT-004)
4.12.5 Testing for CSS Injection (OTG-CLIENT-005)
4.12.6 Testing for Client Side Resource Manipulation (OTG-CLIENT-006)
4.12.7 Test Cross Origin Resource Sharing (OTG-CLIENT-007)
4.12.8 Testing for Cross Site Flashing (OTG-CLIENT-008)
4.12.9 Testing for Clickjacking (OTG-CLIENT-009)
4.12.10 Testing WebSockets (OTG-CLIENT-010)
4.12.11 Test Web Messaging (OTG-CLIENT-011)
4.12.12 Test Local Storage (OTG-CLIENT-012)

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