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Catching the Attack Was Not the Same as Detecting the Sequence
TL;DR: A story about distinguishing retaliation to an attack from detecting the sequence that leads to it. It highlights gaps between testing one failure mode and recognizing the overall attack chain.
The author built a test suite targeting a single class of authorization failure and used it to grade their own gates. A reviewer then evaluated the work, revealing a mismatch between catching a specific failure and spotting the full attack sequence. The takeaway is that validating an entire attack chain is distinct from validating a single failure type. The piece emphasizes broader verification beyond isolated test cases.
Question for the room: Have you implemented tests that validate an entire attack sequence, not just a single failure mode, in your authorization systems?
— via dev.to
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