Testing and Evaluation of Free/Open Source Web Vulnerability Scanners for IoT Web Applications

Abstract

With the rapid development of intelligent life, Internet of things(IoT) technology has been popularized in our daily life. The most of families in the world started to use IoT devices. However, there also appeared many issues in the popularity of the IoT technology. Some IoT environment used a Web application to control and manage the IoT devices. There are the large number of vulnerabilities in these Web applications. The developers utilize vulnerability scanner to detect these issues. In this paper, we test and evaluate four famous free/open source vulnerability scanners which always mentioned in recent research papers. An existing Web target application is applied in this study to evaluate these vulnerability scanners.