JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Security Misconfiguration
Solution overview
Type: Red Team
Who Should Play: Security analysts, penetration testers, application security engineers, and technical leaders want to deepen their understanding of web application vulnerabilities through hands-on offensive techniques.
Objective:
Not all vulnerabilities are hidden deep within the code; sometimes, sensitive information is simply there, exposed by misconfiguration. In this mini game, you'll explore how poorly secured settings, open directories, or overly permissive features can give attackers access to far more than they should have.
You'll investigate what data is easily accessible and consider the real-world consequences of its exposure. From forgotten debug features to misapplied access controls, these issues don't require sophisticated techniques, just an attacker who knows where to look.
Why it matters:
Security misconfigurations are a leading cause of breaches. They can silently introduce risk even in well-designed applications, making it critical to recognize what an insecure environment looks like and how it can be exploited
About the JuicedShop Mini Game Series:
Challenge yourself in a dynamic, hands-on mini game series based on OWASP Juice Shop, a purposefully vulnerable web application replicating real-world security flaws in a safe, sandboxed environment. This interactive experience includes ten unique mini games, each aligned with a specific vulnerability from the OWASP Top Ten - the most critical web application security risks recognized by the industry.
Whether you're exploring web app security for the first time or refining advanced ethical hacking skills, this series offers an engaging, gamified way to practice identifying, exploiting, and understanding common flaws found in modern websites.
Included Mini Games:
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Broken Access Control
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Cryptographic Failures
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Injection Attacks
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Insecure Design
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Security Misconfiguration
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Vulnerable and Outdated Components
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Identification and Authentication Failures
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Software and Data Integrity Failures
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Logging and Monitoring Failures
- JuicedShop Security Lab Series: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
These bite-sized mini games are designed to sharpen offensive testing techniques and deepen your understanding of how vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploited in real-world scenarios.
How to Get Started
- Click the "Launch lab" button on the right side of this page
- Once inside the virtual environment, watch the video in the "Start Here" tab of your lab gateway for next steps
- Good luck and have fun!