ViewState snooping
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Summary
A survey of 10,000+ ASP.NET applications found most ViewStates MAC-enabled but only 4% encrypted, so contents stay readable and may be tampered. Stuttard previews a Burp utility to deserialize them.
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--- id: 2322 title: "ViewState snooping" source_domain: portswigger.net source_url: "https://portswigger.net/blog/viewstate-snooping" published_at: "2007-06-13T20:18:00Z" tags: ["burp-suite", "web-security", "deserialization", "penetration-testing", "portswigger", "asp-net", "pen-testing", "aspnet", "viewstate"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2322" lang: en --- # ViewState snooping ## Summary A survey of 10,000+ ASP.NET applications found most ViewStates MAC-enabled but only 4% encrypted, so contents stay readable and may be tampered. Stuttard previews a Burp utility to deserialize them. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** portswigger.net - **Published:** 2007-06-13T20:18:00Z - **Original:** https://portswigger.net/blog/viewstate-snooping - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2322