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The Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes the technical processes for verifying the controls listed in the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS).
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[Phase 1] Refactor 0x06f-Testing-Local-Authentication.md #2222

Closed cpholguera closed 1 year ago

cpholguera commented 2 years ago

  1. Go through each test case (1 MR per chapter)

  2. Extract any general information and put it to the theory overview

    • Each chapter must have a “## Overview” section and then several “## Testing …(MSTG-XXX-YY)” sections

    • Strategy 1: move theory to chapter overview

    • Strategy 2: move theory to general chapter overview

  3. Only leave a test description on each test (see notes)

Notes:

AndreMCCarvalho commented 2 years ago

I was wondering about the scope of the MASTG-AUTH-7: I think the dynamic analysis approach is quite good and very realistic, however for the static analysis I'm not sure if it fits the mobile aspect of the guide. The frameworks mentioned are usually used as backends and as far as I know OWASP has a security guide dedicated to backends. This seems to be a bit of a stretch for a mobile guide. The only scenario I think it could be used is to ensure the APP is setting a timeout for the token in case the authentication backend allows such configuration. Opinions?

cpholguera commented 2 years ago

We completely agree @AndreMCCarvalho and that's why we will be updating this chapter after the MASVS Refactoring. Are you aware of that? I'd recommend taking a look at it, this is the one for the MASVS-AUTH category:

https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-masvs/discussions/649

If you also open the linked spreadsheet you'll see all the details and draft for new tests (titles only). These should be all mobile only.

Thank you!