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Sink tracing a modern web application

A new plugin has just been added to Codename SCNR called "sink_tracer" and it takes advantage of SCNR's input sink tracing capabilities to provide insights into the inner workings of a web application from a penetration tester's point of view.

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Tasos Laskos
Continuous client-side IAST/DAST Hybrid approach for Single-Page-Applications

Continuous client-side IAST/DAST Hybrid approach for Single-Page-Applications

Some very interesting technology was presented a few days ago in the following articles: Following the data: Taint-tracing in the JS environment Following the execution: Taint-tracing in the JS environment Client-side crawl: A DOM state exploration Thusly, I'd like to clarify how it is used during scanning by Codename SCNR. Through continuous monitoring of each page's JS environment, Codename SCNR can handle Single-Page-Applications like a breeze, something notoriously difficult to handle by most DAST solutions, since they're only, well...DAST. Let me clarify, Codename SCNR is marketed as a DAST product, but that's only when it comes to the server-side, and...

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Tasos Laskos
Managing an SCNR cloud over REST

Managing an SCNR cloud over REST

New products and their terminology can be daunting, especially when it has to do with architectural things. To take care of this issue, this article will serve as an introduction to SCNR's distributed terminology, features and the entities that provide them -- bare with me because they aren't that many. However, since there are several different possible setups and ways to spawn scanner processes, this post is going to be on the large side, as we'll be taking the long route. Don't worry though, this doesn't mean that SCNR is complex, quite the opposite; it allows you to avoid complexity...

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Tasos Laskos

Following the execution: Taint-tracing in the JS environment

In our previous article we discussed data-flow tracing, i.e. following a piece of data as it travels through the JS environment of a page. In this article we're going to concern ourselves with tracing the execution flow of the page. Imagine this scenario: either via manual or automated testing we managed to identify an input vulnerable to XSS. Wouldn't it be nice if we could track exactly that vulnerability came to be? Well, we're going to soon find out. The methodology isn't that much different from data-flow tracing, the only difference is that we're going to be using a little...

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