ZAP

Jan 1, 0001

Definition

ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is an open-source web application security scanner maintained by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). It is designed to help find security vulnerabilities in web applications during the development and testing phases. ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow security testers to manually discover security issues.

Secure Settings Example

# ZAP Configuration for Secure Scanning
zap:
  activeScan:
    maxDepth: 5
    maxChildren: 10
  passiveScan:
    enabled: true
  authentication:
    method: script
    scriptName: "authScript.js"
  sessionManagement:
    method: "cookieBasedSessionManagement"
  context:
    includePaths:
      - "https://example.com/secure/*"
    excludePaths:
      - "https://example.com/logout"
  alertFilters:
    - id: 1000
      action: ignore

Insecure Settings Example

# ZAP Configuration with Insecure Settings
zap:
  activeScan:
    maxDepth: 0  # Unlimited depth can lead to excessive requests and potential denial of service
    maxChildren: 0  # Unlimited children can cause performance issues
  passiveScan:
    enabled: false  # Disabling passive scanning misses out on detecting many vulnerabilities
  authentication:
    method: none  # No authentication method configured, leading to incomplete testing
  context:
    includePaths:
      - "https://example.com/*"  # Including all paths without exclusions can lead to unintended scanning