Version9.6
Revision38
Size29.6 MB
LicenseGPL-3.0+
Confinementstrict
Basecore22
CategoriesEducation, Security

A training tool displaying some techniques for secure web app development

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Overview
sectrain is a program to illustrate some of the security issues common in applications such as XSS and buffer overflows along with how to stop them. Currently this shows example in PHP and
Python.

Still to be done is include javascript, SQLi and C++ buffer overflows, should be done shortly.

Installation

The simplest way to install sectrain is to use the snap

 sudo snap install sectrain


Web Starting

 sectrain startweb 


Web Stopping

 sectrain stopweb 


Web Usage

Open your browser to your host on port 1984, then browse choose the secure or insecure links. Try an exploit such as :

  
 "><script>alert('xss');</script>


You will see how sanitizing the input/output helps solve these issues.

Python Buffer Overflows

There are two examples to look at, pybuffgood and pybuffbad, sending in too long of a string breaks it. Simple, but still a good way to illustrate the point.

 sectrain pybuffbad  abcdefghijkl 
 sectrain pybuffgood abcdefghijkl


Clearly more can be done, but this is just to aid in getting people interested in fixing their code.

Update History

9.6 (38)
13 Dec 2025, 09:47 UTC

Published12 Dec 2019, 21:16 UTC

Last updated8 Oct 2023, 18:01 UTC

First seen13 Dec 2025, 09:47 UTC