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Nginx Redirect Header Injection

Description

When an nginx web server implements an HTTP redirect by using the $uri or $document_uri variables within the redirection target location, the resulting configuration may be vulnerable to header injection.

Remediation

Implement the HTTP redirect with $request_uri instead of $uri or $document_uri.

References

http://paper.seebug.org/335/

Alphabetical index of Nginx variables

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CWE-93 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:X/RL:O/RC:C CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Http Response Splitting XSS

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