here in ***undisclosed company**** web2py survives a https://www.qualys.com/ security scan with no reports whatsoever.
On Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 2:47:44 PM UTC+2, Ian Ryder wrote: > > Hi, just looking back over anything about penetration testing and web2py - > does anyone know of any recent (or any at all) testing of web2py? We're > getting close to our first customers on an app we've been developing the > last year so really need to try and pick it to pieces now while we have a > few months to work on anything we need to. > > Thanks > Ian > > On Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:42:46 UTC+2, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> Thank you Dave for the feedback. It would be nice to have the results of >> those tests (Cenznic, Hailstorm, Quails) published somewhere. Once in a >> while people ask about this. >> >> Massimo >> >> On Tuesday, 10 July 2012 11:28:39 UTC-5, Dave wrote: >>> >>> Well.... >>> >>> I can't say that I have tested the current trunk version, but last >>> December I ran a pretty exhaustive penetration test against a site >>> developed web2py. The results were very good. No findings above low. The >>> low findings were insignificant. I ran Cenzic Hailstorm, Qualys and one >>> other automated vulnerability test suite (I cant remember which at the >>> moment) against it without issue. >>> >>> Here are some things that can cause issue though... >>> >>> * anywhere you use the XML() method in a view you should make sure you >>> have validation turned on. Even though the framework is resilient and does >>> a good job of sanitizing data in & out, you can still end up in XSS or XSRF >>> trouble with XML(). >>> >>> * redirects can trip up or slow down a lot of vuln scanners. Watch out >>> if you perform your own testing that you're not getting false negatives. >>> >>> I know some people that would take on a more "formal" assessment if >>> there is consensus.... >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> On Monday, July 9, 2012 11:48:39 AM UTC-4, scausten wrote: >>>> >>>> One of the awesome things about web2py is of course the built-in and >>>> well-documented resilience against a range of attack methods, but I was >>>> wondering if anyone has attempted a methodical (white-hat) attack to probe >>>> any potential weaknesses? >>>> >>>> Just out of interest :) >>>> >>> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
