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title: "ass01-security-audit"
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tags: 
- assignment
- comp210
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Jet Hughes - 9474308

# Summary of system
- function
- technology

# Flaws
## Password policy
- must have at least 5 characters and one digit.
	- not suffiecient

## SQL Injection
- can log in to admin using username: " 'or 1=1;--"
- we are able to  extract data which is displayed as the users username
- we can extract the data from the data base using this "username"
	- ' union select group_concat(username||':'||password||':'||name||':'||credit_card_number||':'||credit_card_expiry||':'||credit_card_cvv) from user as name;--
	- I was able to crack 48 of the 101 passwords using the rockyou wordlist. I'm sure It would not be difficult to crack more.
- you cant also update the data. E.g., set the price of all products to zero using this as a username in the login box
	- '; update PRODUCT set UNIT_PRICE = 0 where 1=1;--

## Javascript Injection
- It ispossible to perform a javascript injection as the users name is displayed in the website. and prodcut information is displayed in the view catalogue page
- I was able to create an account and log in using the username ''<script>alert("hello")</script>''. However when I did log in the username wasn't displayed in the browser, and alert didn't show. I also repeated the process with the user name ''<script>console.log("hello")</script>'' which also didn't run
- You was able to update a product name to be a script which would then run on others systems
	- e.g. '; update PRODUCT set DESCRIPTION = '<script>alert("hello")</script>' where PRODUCT_ID = 67696;--
- this could be used to export JSESSIONIDs of other users. Which would allow the attack to access their account (while the other user is logged in).
- It could also be used to present the user with a message 

## Path traversal
- You can access the welcome page simply using the path /catalogue/welcome.jsp. This will load the welcome page with the username null. However it is unclear whether this is a security issue as curently the welcome page offers no functionality. 
- I dont think there are any path traversal flaws in this website. This is because there isn't any urls which contain queries or parameters relating to sensitive pages. 
## Network-Level security
- when a user logs in a post request to the server transmits the username and unhashed password to the server. This informaiton is susceptible to a man in the middle attack or other kinds of interception. Hopefully the website uses http. 
![example payload](https://i.imgur.com/9Tn6gx1.png)
## Other