CURL-CVE-2018-1000007 HTTP authentication leak in redirects

curl might leak authentication data to third parties. When asked to send custom headers in its HTTP requests, curl sends that set of headers first to the host in the initial URL but also, if asked to follow redirects and a 30X HTTP response code is returned, to the host mentioned in URL in the...

cURL -- Multiple vulnerabilities

The cURL project reports: libcurl 7.1 through 7.57.0 might accidentally leak authentication data to third parties. When asked to send custom headers in its HTTP requests, libcurl will send that set of headers first to the host in the initial URL but also, if asked to follow redirects and a 30X HT...

HTTP Load Generator: hey

hey is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application – ApacheBench ab replacement. hey was originally called boom and was influenced from Tarek Ziade’s tool at tarekziade/boom . Installation go get -u github.com/rakyll/hey Note: Requires go 1.7 or greater. Usage hey runs provided numbe...

FileBuster - An Extremely Fast And Flexible Web Fuzzer

An extremely fast and flexible web fuzzer. Why another fuzzer? My main motivation was to write a script that would allow me to fuzz a website based on a dictionary but that allowed me to filter words on that dictionary based on regex patterns. This necessity came from the frustration of trying to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3153

The default configuration for cURL and libcurl before 7.42.1 sends custom HTTP headers to both the proxy and destination server, which might allow remote proxy servers to obtain sensitive information by reading the header contents...

Internet Bug Bounty: chrome allows POST requests with custom headers using flash + 307 redirect

Hi, well, It was reported directly to googleas It affected specially chrome https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=332023 . This vulnerability allowed post request with custom headers be sent to any websitesnot respecting same origin policy which chrome was mainly affected. Don't kno...

CORS requests can omit the preflight request

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing CORS requests are required to send a preflight request if custom headers are included, to check that the host wishes to allow the full request to be made. An example of where this may be needed is for sites that use a custom header with a static value as part of thei...

CSRF risk with plugins and 307 redirects — Mozilla

Independent security researcher Kuza55 and Microsoft security researcher Tom Gallagher reported that when plugin-initiated requests receive a 307 redirect response, the plugin is not notified and the request is forwarded to the new location. This is true even for cross-site redirects, so any cust...