How I Built a Robot That Finds Broken Authorization While I Sleep

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You know that feeling when you’re manually testing authorization and your brain turns to mush from the sheer repetition? Yeah, that was me until I built an autopwn machine that does the boring work while I watch Netflix. It’s like having a digital intern that works 24/7, doesn’t complain about coffee, and finds vulnerabilities faster than I can say “403 Forbidden.” The best part? It made me more money in two weeks than I used to make in two months. 💰

It all started when I was testing “AuthMaster,” a company that bragged about their “rock-solid RBAC system.” After the hundredth manual authorization test, I realized I was basically a human fuzzer with caffeine dependency. There had to be a better way.

Act 1: The Manual Authorization Meltdown 😫

I started with AuthMaster’s API in the usual soul-crushing way:

GET /api/v3/users/58432/profile HTTP/2
Host: api.authmaster.com
Authorization…