Archive - attack ships on fire

Exploiting CSP Wildcards for Google Domains

TL;DR The Google developer documentation includes CSP examples which use domain wildcards (which have been widely cut & pasted), and additionally there…

Feb 29 •

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Exploiting Cacheable Responses

TL;DR The main browsers share their cache between Fetch requests and normal navigation.

Feb 20 •

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Exploiting Unsynchronised Clocks

TL;DR According to data from RIPE, over 40% of computers attached to the Internet have a few seconds of clock drift, which with the right combination of…

Feb 11 •

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August 2023

Exploiting TRACE

TL;DR The presence of the TRACE method is generally considered to be at best an informational finding (and in isolation, I wouldn’t disagree with that).

Aug 4, 2023 •

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December 2022

Exploiting API Framework Flexibility

TL;DR The modern frameworks are often very flexible with what they accept, and will happily treat a POST with a JSON body as interchangeable with a URL…

Dec 17, 2022 •

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November 2022

Exploiting CORS Misconfigurations

TL;DR If you can find an unrestricted CORS endpoint, that also responds to the HTTP override headers, then potentially you can use it to access…

Nov 26, 2022 •

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