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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

HTTP/2 pseudo-header server side request forgery

Description

SSRF as in Server Side Request Forgery is a vulnerability that allows an attacker to force server interfaces into sending packets initiated by the victim server to the local interface or to another server behind the firewall. Consult Web References for more information about this problem.

Remediation

Properly sanitize user requests or use a special sandboxed host to route requests to remote resources

References

HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse

Weird proxies/2 and a bit of magic

SSRF VS. BUSINESS-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-918 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Tags

SSRF Acumonitor Api Ssrf

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