Astra: Automated Security Testing For REST API’s

by do son · Published July 9, 2018 · Updated July 9, 2018

Astra

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 a development cycle. It can automatically detect and test login & logout (Authentication API), so it’s easy for anyone to integrate this into CICD pipeline. Astra can take API collection as an input so this can also be used for testing apis in standalone mode.

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

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/flipkart-incubator/Astra



$ cd Astra



$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage: CLI

$ python astra.py --help



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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