Astra is a Python-based tool for API Automated Security Testing, REST API penetration testing is complex due to continuous changes in existing APIs and newly added APIs.
Astra can be used by security engineers or developers as an integral part of their process, so they can detect and patch vulnerabilities early during development cycle. Astra can automatically detect and test login & logout (Authentication API), so it’s easy for anyone to integrate this into CI/CD pipeline.
Astra can take API collection as an input so this can also be used for testing apis in standalone mode, it looks for the following issues:
- SQL injection
- Cross site scripting
- Information Leakage
- Broken Authentication and session management
- CSRF (including Blind CSRF)
- Rate limit
- CORS misconfiguration (including CORS bypass techniques)
- JWT attack
- CRLF detection
- Blind XXE injection
Using Astra for API Automated Security Testing
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$ python astra.py --help _ /\ | | / \ ___| |_ _ __ __ _ / /\ \ / __| __| '__/ _` | / ____ \__ \ |_| | | (_| | /_/ \_\___/\__|_| \__,_| usage: astra.py [-h] [-c {Postman,Swagger}] [-n COLLECTION_NAME] [-u URL] [-headers HEADERS] [-method {GET,POST}] [-b BODY] [-l LOGINURL] [-H LOGINHEADERS] [-d LOGINDATA] REST API Security testing Framework optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -c {Postman,Swagger}, --collection_type {Postman,Swagger} Type of API collection -n COLLECTION_NAME, --collection_name COLLECTION_NAME Type of API collection -u URL, --url URL URL of target API -headers HEADERS, --headers HEADERS Custom headers.Example: {"token" : "123"} -method {GET,POST}, --method {GET,POST} HTTP request method -b BODY, --body BODY Request body of API -l LOGINURL, --loginurl LOGINURL URL of login API -H LOGINHEADERS, --loginheaders LOGINHEADERS Headers should be in a dictionary format. Example: {"accesstoken" : "axzvbqdadf"} -d LOGINDATA, --logindata LOGINDATA login data of API |
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