REST-Attacker is an automated penetration testing framework for APIs following the REST architecture style. The tool’s focus is on streamlining the analysis of generic REST API implementations by completely automating the testing process – including test generation, access control handling, and report generation – with minimal configuration effort. Additionally, REST-Attacker is designed to be flexible and extensible with support for both large-scale testing and fine-grained analysis.
REST-Attacker is maintained by the Chair of Network & Data Security of the Ruhr University of Bochum.
REST-Attacker currently provides these features:
Get the tool by downloading or cloning the repository:
git clone https://github.com/RUB-NDS/REST-Attacker.git
You need Python >3.10 for running the tool.
You also need to install the following packages with pip:
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
Here you can find a quick rundown of the most common and useful commands. You can find more information on each command and other about available configuration options in our usage guides.
Get the list of supported test cases:
python3 -m rest_attacker –list
Basic test run (with load-time test case generation):
python3 -m rest_attacker <cfg-dir-or-openapi-file> –generate
Full test run (with load-time and runtime test case generation + rate limit handling):
python3 -m rest_attacker <cfg-dir-or-openapi-file> –generate –propose –handle-limits
Test run with only selected test cases (only generates test cases for test cases scopes.TestTokenRequestScopeOmit and resources.FindSecurityParameters):
python3 -m rest_attacker <cfg-dir-or-openapi-file> –generate –test-cases scopes.TestTokenRequestScopeOmit resources.FindSecurityParameters
Rerun a test run from a report:
python3 -m rest_attacker <cfg-dir-or-openapi-file> –run /path/to/report.json
Usage guides and configuration format documentation can be found in the documentation subfolders.
For fixes/mitigations for known problems with the tool, see the troubleshooting docs or the Issues section.
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