Low Code High Risk: Enterprise Domination via Low Code Abuse

Presented at DEF CON 30 (2022), Aug. 13, 2022, 4 p.m. (45 minutes).

Why focus on heavily guarded crown jewels when you can dominate an organization through its shadow IT?

Low-Code applications have become a reality in the enterprise, with surveys showing that most enterprise apps are now built outside of IT, with lacking security practices. Unsurprisingly, attackers have figured out ways to leverage these platforms for their gain.

In this talk, we demonstrate a host of attack techniques found in the wild, where enterprise No-Code platforms are leveraged and abused for every step in the cyber killchain. You will learn how attackers perform an account takeover by making the user simply click a link, move laterally and escalate privileges with zero network traffic, leave behind an untraceable backdoor, and automate data exfiltration, to name a few capabilities. All capabilities will be demonstrated with POCs, and their source code will be shared.

Finally, we will introduce an open-source recon tool that identifies opportunities for lateral movement and privilege escalation through low-code platforms.


Presenters:

  • Michael Bargury - Co-Founder and CTO, Zenity.io
    Michael Bargury is the Co-Founder and CTO of Zenity, where he helps companies secure their low-code/no-code apps. In the past, he headed security product efforts at Azure focused on IoT, APIs and IaC. Michael is passionate about all things related to cloud, SaaS and low-code security, and spends his time finding ways they could go wrong. He also leads the OWASP low-code security project and writes about it on DarkReading.

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