hunt-api-misconfig

To audit a REST API for mass assignment vulnerabilities, you systematically probe profile update requests with extra fields like role or is_admin to detect if the endpoint improperly accepts and processes unauthorized parameter modifications.

JWT algorithm confusion is a security misconfiguration where attackers manipulate the token header to bypass signature verification, exposing API endpoints by downgrading the validation logic to accept unsigned or symmetrically signed tokens.

You test for prototype pollution in modern web architectures by systematically probing API payloads to inject properties into base object prototypes, uncovering potential privilege escalation paths and logic vulnerabilities in the application layer.

Yes, this approach maps attack surfaces by analyzing exposed OpenAPI documentation and systematically probing API responses to identify CORS bypasses and other security misconfigurations in RESTful interfaces.

The best way to map attack vectors in OData query layers is to audit the exposed OData interfaces and OpenAPI documentation, systematically probing query parameters to uncover authorization flaws and logic vulnerabilities.

You should manually probe APIs to uncover subtle security flaws like mass assignment, JWT misconfigurations, and prototype pollution that often bypass standard automated scanners due to their complex and logic-dependent nature.