CAPEC™ 215: Fuzzing for application mapping

Description

An attacker sends random, malformed, or otherwise unexpected messages to a target application and observes the application's log or error messages returned. The attacker does not initially know how a target will respond to individual messages but by attempting a large number of message variants they may find a variant that trigger's desired behavior. In this attack, the purpose of the fuzzing is to observe the application's log and error messages, although fuzzing a target can also sometimes cause the target to enter an unstable state, causing a crash.

Source: CAPEC™ 215

ASVS (5.0): 13.2.2, 13.4.2, 13.4.6, 16.2.5, 16.4.2, 16.5.1, 2.4.1

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