PortSwigger - Authentication - Lab 6

Lab 6 - Authentication - Broken brute-force protection, IP block

Lab Objective:

This lab is vulnerable due to a logic flaw in its password brute-force protection. To solve the lab, brute-force the victim’s password, then log in and access their account page

Your credentials: wiener:peter
Victim’s username: carlos
Candidate passwords

Reference:
Port Swigger - Lab 6

Solution

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1. With Burp running, investigate the login page. Observe that your IP is temporarily blocked if you submit 3 incorrect logins in a row. However, notice that you can reset the counter for the number of failed login attempts by logging in to your own account before this limit is reached

2. Enter an invalid username and password, then send the POST /login request to Burp Intruder. Create a pitchfork attack with payload positions in both the username and password parameters.

3. On the Resource pool tab, add the attack to a resource pool with Maximum concurrent requests set to 1. By only sending one request at a time, you can ensure that your login attempts are sent to the server in the correct order

4. On the Payloads tab, select payload set 1. Add a list of payloads that alternates between your username and carlos. Make sure that your username is first and that carlos is repeated at least 100 times.

5. Edit the list of candidate passwords and add your own password before each one. Make sure that your password is aligned with your username in the other list.

6. Add this list to payload set 2 and start the attack

7. When the attack finishes, filter the results to hide responses with a 200 status code. Sort the remaining results by username. There should only be a single 302 response for requests with the username carlos. Make a note of the password from the Payload 2 column.

8. Log in to Carlos’s account using the password that you identified and access his account page to solve the lab.

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