EsPReSSO - A good morning starts with coffee!

In this posts I describe the tool, I wrote for my Bachelor thesis at the Chair for Network and Data Security, with support of Context Information Security Ltd.. EsPReSSO is a apronym for "Extension for Recognition and Processing of Single Sing on Protocols". The basic idea behind EsPReSSO is to automate standard tasks to detect and classify the Single Sign-On (SSO) Protocols OpenID, BrowserID, SAML, OAuth, OpenID-Connect, Facebook Connect and Microsoft Account. The tool is integrate with PortSwigger's HTTP Proxy, Burp Suite. Furthermore EsPReSSO integrates the WS-Attacker, to attack SAML services semi-automated or manually.

Introduction to WS-Attacker: XML Signature Wrapping (XSW) on Web services

This post introduces WS-Attacker. We start with how to build it from source. After that we setup an example Axis2 Web service and finally we perform an XSW Attack on it.