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Running Spider / Scanner Clobbers Server (or just CF service)

Darcy | Last updated: Jun 27, 2019 10:44PM UTC

Hi there. I'm not blaming Burp Suite here, as we've encountered the same thing with some other web app scanners, but I'm hoping for some Burp-specific advice. When we run a typical, basic spidering / scanning of a target, the spider and scanner seem to function fine for their duration, but in so doing they completely clobber the development server (it may just be ColdFusion that gets clobbered) that they're scanning such that no site hosted on that server that's being spidered / scanned can be browsed until such time as either the CF service or the entire box is restarted. We've set both the Burp Scanner and Spider to throttle between requests for 100ms but that's about all that we've done to deviate from "defaults" at this point, as this is all very new to us. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

Liam, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jun 28, 2019 09:23AM UTC