Security News > 2024 > April > Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant: Open-source API service designed for learning

Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant is an open-source project that allows developers to learn to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in their code through an interactive game.

"I wanted to create a generic playground for ethical hackers, developers, and security engineers where they could identify, exploit, or fix vulnerabilities. Furthermore, security engineers could implement new vulns and test their detection tools because the Python FastAPI framework allows quick development," Krzysztof Pranczk, the creator of Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant, told Help Net Security.

Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant is managed by a Chef who has learned that threat actors compromised his restaurant's API and system.

The application features numerous security weaknesses beyond those outlined in the challenge, offering multiple routes to obtain root access, starting as an unauthenticated API user.

The application uses the Python FastAPI framework to develop the restaurant's API and incorporates a PostgreSQL database.

Damn Vulnerable RESTaurant is available for free on GitHub.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/04/17/damn-vulnerable-restaurant-open-source-api-service/