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REST-Attacker is an automated penetration testing framework for APIs following the REST architecture style. The tool's focus is on streamlining the analysis of generic REST API implementations by completely automating the testing process - including test generation, access control handling, and report generation - with minimal configuration effort. Additionally, REST-Attacker is designed to be flexible and extensible with support for both large-scale testing and fine-grained analysis.

REST-Attacker is maintained by the Chair of Network & Data Security of the Ruhr University of Bochum.

Features

REST-Attacker currently provides these features:

Install

Get the tool by downloading or cloning the repository:

git clone https://github.com/RUB-NDS/REST-Attacker.git

You need Python >3.10 for running the tool.

You also need to install the following packages with pip:

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Quickstart

Here you can find a quick rundown of the most common and useful commands. You can find more information on each command and other about available configuration options in our usage guides.

Get the list of supported test cases:

python3 -m rest_attacker --list

Basic test run (with load-time test case generation):

python3 -m rest_attacker <cfg-dir-or-openapi-file> --generate

Full test run (with load-time and runtime test case generation + rate limit handling):

python3 -m rest_attacker <cfg-dir-or-openapi-file> --generate --propose --handle-limits

Test run with only selected test cases (only generates test cases for test cases scopes.TestTokenRequestScopeOmit and resources.FindSecurityParameters):

python3 -m rest_attacker <cfg-dir-or-openapi-file> --generate --test-cases scopes.TestTokenRequestScopeOmit resources.FindSecurityParameters

Rerun a test run from a report:

python3 -m rest_attacker <cfg-dir-or-openapi-file> --run /path/to/report.json

Documentation

Usage guides and configuration format documentation can be found in the documentation subfolders.

Troubleshooting

For fixes/mitigations for known problems with the tool, see the troubleshooting docs or the Issues section.

Contributing

Contributions of all kinds are appreciated! If you found a bug or want to make a suggestion or feature request, feel free to create a new issue in the issue tracker. You can also submit fixes or code ammendments via a pull request.

Unfortunately, we can be very busy sometimes, so it may take a while before we respond to comments in this repository.

License

This project is licensed under GNU LGPLv3 or later (LGPL3+). See COPYING for the full license text and CONTRIBUTORS.md for the list of authors.