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CRLF-Powered Desync Lets Attackers Poison CDN Cache and Serve XSS to Live Users
A limited CRLF injection flaw can be escalated into a severe HTTP desynchronization attack, poisoning CDN caches and delivering XSS payloads to users on legitimate websites. The attack, called CRLF-Powered Desync, begins when an application incorrectly handles encoded carriage return and line feed characters, commonly represented as %0d%0a. These characters mark new lines in HTTP messages. […] The post CRLF-Powered Desync Lets Attackers Poison CDN Cache and Serve XSS to Live Users appeared first on Cyber Security News.
A limited CRLF injection flaw can be escalated into a severe HTTP desynchronization attack, poisoning CDN caches and delivering XSS payloads to users on legitimate websites. The attack, called CRLF-Powered Desync, begins when an application incorrectly handles encoded carriage return and line feed characters, commonly represented as %0d%0a. These characters mark new lines in HTTP…
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