How To Install arjun on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arjun on Debian 12.
What is arjun
arjun is:
This package can find query parameters for URL endpoints.
Web applications use parameters (or queries) to accept user input, take the following example into consideration.
http://api.example.com/v1/userinfo?id=751634589
This URL seems to load user information for a specific user id, but what if there exists a parameter named admin which when set to True makes the endpoint provide more information about the user? This is what Arjun does, it finds valid HTTP parameters with a huge default dictionary of 25,890 parameter names. It takes less than 10 seconds to go through this huge list while making just 50-60 requests to the target.
Some features:
- Supports GET/POST/POST-JSON/POST-XML requests;
- Automatically handles rate limits and timeouts;
- Export results to: BurpSuite, text or JSON file;
- Import targets from: BurpSuite, text file or a raw request file;
- Can passively extract parameters from JS or 3 external sources.
Arjun is useful for penetration testing (PENTEST) and network security analysis, serving as OSINT.
There are three methods to install arjun on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install arjun Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install arjun using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install arjun
Install arjun Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install arjun using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install arjun
Install arjun Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install arjun using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install arjun
How To Uninstall arjun on Debian 12
To uninstall only the arjun package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove arjun
Uninstall arjun And Its Dependencies
To uninstall arjun and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove arjun
Remove arjun Configurations and Data
To remove arjun configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge arjun
Remove arjun configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove arjun configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arjun
Dependencies
arjun have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arjun package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
