🌐 Web Vulnerabilities
API Security
API security is the practice of protecting APIs from attacks. As modern applications increasingly rely on APIs to function, API security has become a critical part of web application security.
Key Areas of API Security
- Authentication: Ensuring that only authorized users can access the API.
- Authorization: Ensuring that users can only access the resources that they are authorized to access.
- Input Validation: Validating all user-supplied input to prevent injection attacks.
- Rate Limiting: Limiting the number of requests that a user can make to the API in a given period of time.
OWASP API Security Top 10
The OWASP API Security Top 10 is a list of the most critical security risks to APIs. It is a great resource for learning about API security.
- API1:2023 - Broken Object Level Authorization
- API2:2023 - Broken Authentication
- API3:2023 - Broken Object Property Level Authorization
- API4:2023 - Unrestricted Resource Consumption
- API5:2023 - Broken Function Level Authorization
- API6:2023 - Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Business Flows
- API7:2023 - Server Side Request Forgery
- API8:2023 - Security Misconfiguration
- API9:2023 - Improper Inventory Management
- API10:2023 - Unsafe Consumption of APIs