The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) group has created a Top 10 web applications vulnerability list since 2003. Normally the list gets updated every 3 years or so, with the previous release being 2013. Now with the 2017 list being finalized, I felt it was appropriate for us to go through it and look at it from a red and blue team perspective. This episode will cover the first 5 items on the list, from A1 (Injection) through to A5 (Broken Access Control). Some links of interest:


  • OWASP Top 10 - https://www.owasp.org/images/7/72/OWASP_Top_10-2017_%28en%29.pdf.pdf
  • SQLMap - http://sqlmap.org/
  • Burp Suite - https://portswigger.net/burp
  • OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project

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