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<!DOCTYPE FL_Course SYSTEM "https://www.flane.de/dtd/fl_course095.dtd"><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://portal.flane.ch/css/xml-course.xsl"?><course productid="24025" language="fr" source="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/fr/xml-course/cydrill-wasec-py" lastchanged="2026-01-12T11:40:17+01:00" parent="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/fr/xml-courses"><title>Web Application Security in Python</title><productcode>WASEC-PY</productcode><vendorcode>CY</vendorcode><vendorname>Cydrill</vendorname><fullproductcode>CY-WASEC-PY</fullproductcode><version>1.0</version><objective>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Getting familiar with essential cyber security concepts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Understanding Web application security issues&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Detailed analysis of the OWASP Top Ten elements&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Putting Web application security in the context of Python&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Going beyond the low hanging fruits&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Managing vulnerabilities in third party components&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify vulnerabilities and their consequences&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Learn the security best practices in Python&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Input validation approaches and principles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</objective><essentials>&lt;p&gt;General Python and Web development&lt;/p&gt;</essentials><audience>&lt;p&gt;Python developers working on Web applications&lt;/p&gt;</audience><contents>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cyber security basics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The OWASP Top Ten&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Common software security weaknesses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;JSON security&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wrap up&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</contents><outline>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DAY 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cyber security basics&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What is security?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Threat and risk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyber security threat types&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Consequences of insecure software&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The OWASP Top Ten&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;OWASP Top 10 &amp;ndash; 2017&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A1 &amp;ndash; Injection
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Injection principles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Injection attacks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SQL injection
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;SQL injection basics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; SQL injection&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Attack techniques&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Content-based blind SQL injection&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Time-based blind SQL injection&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;SQL injection best practices
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Input validation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Parameterized queries&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Additional considerations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; SQL injection best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; Hacking Fortnite accounts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Code injection
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Code injection via input()&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;OS command injection
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Command injection&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;OS command injection best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Avoiding command injection with the right APIs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Command injection best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; Shellshock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Shellshock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; Command injection via ping&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Script injection
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Server-side template injection (SSTI)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Template injection&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;General protection best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A2 &amp;ndash; Broken Authentication
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Authentication basics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Multi-factor authentication&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Authentication weaknesses &amp;ndash; spoofing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spoofing on the Web&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; PayPal 2FA bypass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Password management
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Inbound password management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Storing account passwords&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Password in transit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Is just hashing passwords enough?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dictionary attacks and brute forcing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Salting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adaptive hash functions for password storage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Password policy
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;NIST authenticator requirements for memorized secrets&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; The Ashley Madison data breach
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The dictionary attack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The ultimate crack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Exploitation and the lessons learned&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Password database migration
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;(Mis)handling None passwords&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DAY 2 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The OWASP Top Ten&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A2 &amp;ndash; Broken Authentication
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Password management
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Outbound password management
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hard coded passwords&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Hardcoded password&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Protecting sensitive information in memory
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Challenges in protecting memory&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Session management
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Session management essentials&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Session ID best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Why do we protect session IDs &amp;ndash; Session hijacking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Session fixation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Session handling in Flask&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A3 &amp;ndash; Sensitive Data Exposure
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Information exposure&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Exposure through extracted data and aggregation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; Strava data exposure&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Error and exception handling principles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A4 &amp;ndash; XML External Entities (XXE)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;DTD and the entities&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Entity expansion&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Billion laughs attack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;External Entity Attack (XXE)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;File inclusion with external entities&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Server-Side Request Forgery with external entities&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; External entity attack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; XXE vulnerability in SAP Store&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Preventing XXE&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Using non-vulnerable parsers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A5 &amp;ndash; Broken Access Control
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Access control basics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Failure to restrict URL access&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Confused deputy
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Insecure direct object reference (IDOR)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Insecure Direct Object Reference&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Authorization bypass through user-controlled keys&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; Authorization bypass on Facebook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Horizontal authorization&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;File upload
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Unrestricted file upload&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Good practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Unrestricted file upload&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A6 &amp;ndash; Security Misconfiguration
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Configuration principles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Python configuration best practices
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Configuring Flask&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A7 &amp;ndash; Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cross-site scripting basics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cross-site scripting types
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Persistent cross-site scripting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reflected cross-site scripting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Client-side (DOM-based) cross-site scripting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Stored XSS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Reflected XSS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; XSS in Fortnite accounts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;XSS protection best practices
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Protection principles &amp;ndash; escaping&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;XSS protection APIs in Python&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;XSS protection in Jinja2&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; XSS fix / stored&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; XSS fix / reflected&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Additional protection layers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Client-side protection principles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A8 &amp;ndash; Insecure Deserialization
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Serialization and deserialization challenges&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deserializing untrusted streams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deserialization with pickle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Deserializing with Pickle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;PyYAML deserialization challenges&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deserialization best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DAY 3 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The OWASP Top Ten&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A9 &amp;ndash; Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Using vulnerable components&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assessing the environment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hardening&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Untrusted functionality import&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Malicious packages in Python&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Importing JavaScript&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Importing JavaScript&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; The British Airways data breach&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vulnerability management
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Patch management&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vulnerability databases&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A10 &amp;ndash; Insufficient Logging &amp;amp; Monitoring
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Logging and monitoring principles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Insufficient logging&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Plaintext passwords at Facebook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Logging best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Monitoring best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Web application security beyond the Top Ten
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Client-side security&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Same Origin Policy
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Same-origin policy demo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tabnabbing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Reverse tabnabbing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frame sandboxing
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cross-Frame Scripting (XFS) attack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Clickjacking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clickjacking beyond hijacking a click&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clickjacking protection best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Using CSP to prevent clickjacking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Common software security weaknesses&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Input validation
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Input validation principles
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Blacklists and whitelists&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Data validation techniques&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Input validation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;What to validate &amp;ndash; the attack surface&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Where to validate &amp;ndash; defense in depth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to validate &amp;ndash; validation vs transformations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Output sanitization&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Encoding challenges&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Encoding challenges&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Validation with regex&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dealing with ReDoS&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Files and streams
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Path traversal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Path traversal-related examples&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Path traversal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Additional challenges in Windows&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Virtual resources&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Path traversal best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Format string issues&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Unsafe native code
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Native code dependence&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lab &amp;ndash; Unsafe native code&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Best practices for dealing with native code&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JSON security&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;JSON injection&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dangers of JSONP&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;JSON/JavaScript hijacking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Best practices&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Case study &amp;ndash; ReactJS vulnerability in HackerOne&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wrap up&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Secure coding principles
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Principles of robust programming by Matt Bishop&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Secure design principles of Saltzer and Schr&amp;ouml;der&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;And now what?
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Software security sources and further reading&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Python resources&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</outline><objective_plain>- Getting familiar with essential cyber security concepts
- Understanding Web application security issues
- Detailed analysis of the OWASP Top Ten elements
- Putting Web application security in the context of Python
- Going beyond the low hanging fruits
- Managing vulnerabilities in third party components
- Identify vulnerabilities and their consequences
- Learn the security best practices in Python
- Input validation approaches and principles</objective_plain><essentials_plain>General Python and Web development</essentials_plain><audience_plain>Python developers working on Web applications</audience_plain><contents_plain>- Cyber security basics
- The OWASP Top Ten
- Common software security weaknesses
- JSON security
- Wrap up</contents_plain><outline_plain>DAY 1

Cyber security basics



- What is security?
- Threat and risk
- Cyber security threat types
- Consequences of insecure software
The OWASP Top Ten



- OWASP Top 10 – 2017
- A1 – Injection

- Injection principles
- Injection attacks
- SQL injection

- SQL injection basics
- Lab – SQL injection
- Attack techniques
- Content-based blind SQL injection
- Time-based blind SQL injection
- SQL injection best practices

- Input validation
- Parameterized queries
- Additional considerations
- Lab – SQL injection best practices
- Case study – Hacking Fortnite accounts
- Code injection

- Code injection via input()
- OS command injection

- Lab – Command injection
- OS command injection best practices
- Avoiding command injection with the right APIs
- Lab – Command injection best practices
- Case study – Shellshock
- Lab – Shellshock
- Case study – Command injection via ping
- Script injection

- Server-side template injection (SSTI)
- Lab – Template injection
- General protection best practices
- A2 – Broken Authentication

- Authentication basics
- Multi-factor authentication
- Authentication weaknesses – spoofing
- Spoofing on the Web
- Case study – PayPal 2FA bypass
- Password management

- Inbound password management
- Storing account passwords
- Password in transit
- Lab – Is just hashing passwords enough?
- Dictionary attacks and brute forcing
- Salting
- Adaptive hash functions for password storage
- Password policy

- NIST authenticator requirements for memorized secrets
- Case study – The Ashley Madison data breach

- The dictionary attack
- The ultimate crack
- Exploitation and the lessons learned
- Password database migration

- (Mis)handling None passwords
DAY 2 

The OWASP Top Ten



- A2 – Broken Authentication

- Password management

- Outbound password management

- Hard coded passwords
- Best practices
- Lab – Hardcoded password
- Protecting sensitive information in memory

- Challenges in protecting memory
- Session management

- Session management essentials
- Session ID best practices
- Why do we protect session IDs – Session hijacking
- Session fixation
- Session handling in Flask
- A3 – Sensitive Data Exposure

- Information exposure
- Exposure through extracted data and aggregation
- Case study – Strava data exposure
- Error and exception handling principles
- A4 – XML External Entities (XXE)

- DTD and the entities
- Entity expansion
- Lab – Billion laughs attack
- External Entity Attack (XXE)

- File inclusion with external entities
- Server-Side Request Forgery with external entities
- Lab – External entity attack
- Case study – XXE vulnerability in SAP Store
- Preventing XXE
- Lab – Using non-vulnerable parsers
- A5 – Broken Access Control

- Access control basics
- Failure to restrict URL access
- Confused deputy

- Insecure direct object reference (IDOR)
- Lab – Insecure Direct Object Reference
- Authorization bypass through user-controlled keys
- Case study – Authorization bypass on Facebook
- Lab – Horizontal authorization
- File upload

- Unrestricted file upload
- Good practices
- Lab – Unrestricted file upload
- A6 – Security Misconfiguration

- Configuration principles
- Python configuration best practices

- Configuring Flask
- A7 – Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

- Cross-site scripting basics
- Cross-site scripting types

- Persistent cross-site scripting
- Reflected cross-site scripting
- Client-side (DOM-based) cross-site scripting
- Lab – Stored XSS
- Lab – Reflected XSS
- Case study – XSS in Fortnite accounts
- XSS protection best practices

- Protection principles – escaping
- XSS protection APIs in Python
- XSS protection in Jinja2
- Lab – XSS fix / stored
- Lab – XSS fix / reflected
- Additional protection layers
- Client-side protection principles
- A8 – Insecure Deserialization

- Serialization and deserialization challenges
- Deserializing untrusted streams
- Deserialization with pickle
- Lab – Deserializing with Pickle
- PyYAML deserialization challenges
- Deserialization best practices
DAY 3 

The OWASP Top Ten



- A9 – Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

- Using vulnerable components
- Assessing the environment
- Hardening
- Untrusted functionality import
- Malicious packages in Python
- Importing JavaScript
- Lab – Importing JavaScript
- Case study – The British Airways data breach
- Vulnerability management

- Patch management
- Vulnerability databases
- A10 – Insufficient Logging &amp; Monitoring

- Logging and monitoring principles
- Insufficient logging
- Plaintext passwords at Facebook
- Logging best practices
- Monitoring best practices
- Web application security beyond the Top Ten

- Client-side security
- Same Origin Policy

- Lab – Same-origin policy demo
- Tabnabbing
- Lab – Reverse tabnabbing
- Frame sandboxing

- Cross-Frame Scripting (XFS) attack
- Lab – Clickjacking
- Clickjacking beyond hijacking a click
- Clickjacking protection best practices
- Lab – Using CSP to prevent clickjacking
Common software security weaknesses



- Input validation

- Input validation principles

- Blacklists and whitelists
- Data validation techniques
- Lab – Input validation
- What to validate – the attack surface
- Where to validate – defense in depth
- How to validate – validation vs transformations
- Output sanitization
- Encoding challenges
- Lab – Encoding challenges
- Validation with regex
- Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)
- Lab – Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)
- Dealing with ReDoS
- Files and streams

- Path traversal
- Path traversal-related examples
- Lab – Path traversal
- Additional challenges in Windows
- Virtual resources
- Path traversal best practices
- Format string issues
- Unsafe native code

- Native code dependence
- Lab – Unsafe native code
- Best practices for dealing with native code
JSON security



- JSON injection
- Dangers of JSONP
- JSON/JavaScript hijacking
- Best practices
- Case study – ReactJS vulnerability in HackerOne
Wrap up



- Secure coding principles

- Principles of robust programming by Matt Bishop
- Secure design principles of Saltzer and Schröder
- And now what?

- Software security sources and further reading
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