OWASP ZAP w2018-08-20 released: pentesting tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications
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The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing as well as being a useful addition to an experienced pen testers toolbox.ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually.Some of ZAP’s features:
- Open source
- Cross-platform
- Easy to install (just requires java 1.7)
- Completely free (no paid for ‘Pro’ version)
- Ease of use a priority
- Comprehensive help pages
- Fully internationalized
- Translated into a dozen languages
- Community-based, with involvement, actively encouraged
- Under active development by an international team of volunteers
Some of ZAP’s functionality:
- Intercepting Proxy
- Traditional and AJAX spiders
- Automated scanner
- Passive scanner
- Forced browsing
- Fuzzer
- Dynamic SSL certificates
- Smartcard and Client Digital Certificates support
- Web sockets support
- Support for a wide range of scripting languages
- Plug-n-Hack support
- Authentication and session support
- Powerful REST based API
- Automatic updating option
- Integrated and growing marketplace of add-ons
OWASP ZAP 2.7 has been released.
This is a bug fix and enhancement release, which requires a minimum of Java 8.Some of the more significant enhancements include:
- Browser launch included by default – this allows you to launch browsers from ZAP that are preconfigured to proxy through ZAP and ignore the certificate warnings due to the ZAP root certificate.
- Allow ZAP to listen on multiple addresses/ports
- Support Server Name Indication
- Updated NTLM engine implementation – this fixes the cases where the domain is being validated and improves interoperability with other (server) NTLM implementations
- Lots of new API endpoints – see below for details
