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This tool is a black-box API security scanner designed to surface weaknesses before an adversary can exploit them. You submit an API endpoint, and within a minute you receive a risk score and a prioritized list of findings. The scanner limits itself to read-only methods and text-only POST for LLM probes, and it blocks private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints at multiple layers.

Findings map directly to OWASP API Top 10 (2023), providing clear remediation guidance for each detected issue. The scanner also aligns with security controls described in PCI-DSS 4.0 and SOC 2 Type II, helping you prepare for audits against these frameworks. Coverage includes:

• Authentication bypass, JWT misconfigurations such as alg=none and expired tokens, and security header validation
• BOLA and IDOR via sequential ID enumeration and active adjacent-ID probing
• BFLA and privilege escalation through admin endpoint probing and role leakage
• Property over-exposure and mass-assignment surfaces
• Input validation issues like CORS wildcard usage and dangerous HTTP methods
• Rate limiting detection and oversized response risks
• Data exposure patterns including emails, Luhn-validated card numbers, SSN-like strings, API key formats, and error leakage
• HTTPS redirect issues, HSTS, and cookie flags
• SSRF indicators involving URL-accepting parameters and internal IP detection
• Inventory issues such as missing versioning and legacy paths
• Unsafe consumption surfaces and webhook exposure
• LLM/AI security probes including prompt extraction, instruction override, jailbreaks, data exfiltration attempts, and token smuggling

The scanner parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 documents, resolving recursive $ref references. It cross-references the spec definitions against runtime findings to highlight undefined security schemes, sensitive fields, deprecated operations, and missing pagination. Authenticated scanning is available from the Starter tier upward, supporting Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies. Domain verification is enforced through DNS TXT records or an HTTP well-known file, ensuring only the domain owner can run authenticated scans. Header forwarding is restricted to Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* headers.

With Pro tier and above, you can schedule rescans every six hours, daily, weekly, or monthly. The system detects diffs between scans, highlighting new findings, resolved issues, and score drift. Alerts are rate-limited to one email per hour per API and can be sent via Slack or Teams. HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks are supported, with auto-disable after five consecutive failures. The tool integrates into CI/CD through a GitHub Action that can fail the build when scores drop below a threshold, and an MCP server enables scanning from AI coding assistants. A web dashboard centralizes reports, score trends, and branded compliance PDF downloads, while the CLI offers JSON and text output via middlebrick scan <url>.

middleBrick is a scanner and does not fix, patch, block, or remediate findings; it provides guidance to help your team investigate further. It does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, does not detect business logic vulnerabilities, and does not perform blind SSRF testing due to the lack of out-of-band infrastructure. It is not a replacement for a human pentester in high-stakes audits. Scan data is deletable on demand and purged within 30 days of cancellation. Customer data is never sold and is not used for model training.