RE: Open Source Application Vulnerability Assessment Tools

["Arian J. Evans" <arian.evans () anachronic com>]

The lack of info is because, in this domain,
there really isn't anything in the "automated
web app scanner" domain worth using.

For manual testing, there are a ton of tools.

Undertaking the creation of one is challenging.

The variables are certainly far, far higher
than harnessing a scripted testing engine
and regex matcher to a port scanner/protocol
fingerprinter, a'la Nessus.

This is a much harder problem, more variables,
and not many folks do a good job at it. (These
are smart folks too, but it's a hard problem).

</free_lunch>

-ae

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> From: listbounce () securityfocus com 
> [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Aman Raheja
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:01 PM
> To: Brokken, Allen P.; webappsec () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Open Source Application Vulnerability Assessment Tools
>
> Some tools are listed here
>
> http://sectools.org/web-scanners.html
>
> Aman Raheja, CISSP
> PGP Key: www.techquotes.com/araheja.asc
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:40:19 -0500, "Brokken, Allen P." 
> <BrokkenA () missouri edu> wrote :
>
> >     
> > On this list we talk a lot about various vendor provided 
> tools quite a
> > bit.  In general it appears most solutions are 
> Windows-centric in their
> > installation even if they work against multiple platforms.  
> >
> > With the prevalence of LAMP systems I would figure there 
> must be some
> > means of doing a security assessment on their applications 
> with native
> > tools.  It seems odd to me that there isn't a NESSUS equivalent for
> > application testing.  I'm wondering what is available from the Open
> > Source community in the way of
> >
> > * Black Box web assessment software
> > * Source code assessment software
> > * Assessment management software
> >
> > I'm more looking for names/urls to projects than I am for any
> > comparisons or descriptions.
> >
> > Allen Brokken
> >
> > Information Security and Account Management - IAT Services 
> - University
> > of Missouri -brokkena () missouri edu - (573)884-8708
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