Detect Unpublicised Web Services |
Attack Pattern ID: 144 (Standard Attack Pattern Completeness: Stub) | Typical Severity: Low | Status: Draft |
Detect Unpublicised Web Services |
Attack Pattern ID: 144 (Standard Attack Pattern Completeness: Stub) | Typical Severity: Low | Status: Draft |
Summary
An attacker searches a targeted web site for web services that have not been publicized. Generally this involves mapping the published web site by spidering through all the published links and then attempt to access well-known debugging or logging services, or otherwise predictable services within the site tree. This attack can be especially dangerous since unpublished but available services may not have adequate security controls placed upon them given that an administrator may believe they are unreachable.
The targeted web site must include unpublished services within its web tree. The nature of these services determines the severity of this attack.
Spidering tools to explore the target web site are extremely useful in this attack especially when attacking large sites. Some tools might also be able to automatically construct common service queries from known paths.
Nature | Type | ID | Name | Description | View(s) this relationship pertains to |
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ChildOf | Attack Pattern | 87 | Forceful Browsing | Mechanism of Attack (primary)1000 |
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28 June 2016