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API Security Chat

The document discusses API security for REST and GraphQL APIs, highlighting common vulnerabilities such as injection attacks, broken authentication, and excessive data exposure. It provides examples, testing tools, and prevention techniques, emphasizing the importance of input validation and proper configuration. The conclusion advocates for a proactive approach to securing APIs through careful schema design and automated vulnerability detection tools.

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API Security Chat

The document discusses API security for REST and GraphQL APIs, highlighting common vulnerabilities such as injection attacks, broken authentication, and excessive data exposure. It provides examples, testing tools, and prevention techniques, emphasizing the importance of input validation and proper configuration. The conclusion advocates for a proactive approach to securing APIs through careful schema design and automated vulnerability detection tools.

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API Security Chat Overview

This document captures the discussions around API security for both REST and GraphQL APIs,

covering common vulnerabilities, their testing approaches, and examples.

Topics Covered:

1. Enumeration in GraphQL APIs

2. BOLA (Broken Object Level Authorization) in REST and GraphQL

3. JWT (JSON Web Token) Testing and Broken Authentication

4. Injection Attacks in REST and GraphQL (SQL Injection, NoSQL Injection, Command Injection)

5. Broken Function Level Authorization

6. Mass Assignment in REST and GraphQL

7. Excessive Data Exposure in REST and GraphQL

8. Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in REST and GraphQL

9. Security Misconfiguration

10. Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows

11. Unrestricted Resource Consumption

The discussion provided detailed examples, testing tools (Postman, curl, Burp Suite, SQLMap),

and prevention techniques like input validation, field-level security, and the use of prepared

statements.

REST and GraphQL APIs are vulnerable to several types of injection attacks due to improper

handling of user inputs.

SQL Injection and NoSQL Injection examples demonstrated how attackers can manipulate queries
to access unauthorized data.

Mass Assignment and Excessive Data Exposure were discussed with specific focus on how APIs

expose unintended data,

and testing examples were provided for both REST and GraphQL.

Tools and Techniques for Testing:

- Postman and curl were suggested for manual testing.

- Burp Suite, GraphQLmap, and SQLMap for automated vulnerability detection.

Injections like Command Injection were also covered, showing how attackers can exploit system

commands through REST APIs.

GraphQL-specific issues such as querying sensitive fields were also examined, with suggestions for

schema design and query complexity limitations.

Conclusion:

The chat emphasized a proactive approach to securing APIs, focusing on robust input validation,

proper configuration, and careful schema design in GraphQL to prevent sensitive data exposure and

injection attacks.

For testing examples, using Burp Suite to intercept and test queries, and leveraging tools like

SQLMap and GraphQLmap were recommended for automating the detection of vulnerabilities.

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