Radancy: 'X-Forwarded-Host' key used in input without sanitation - possible cache poisoning

Domain and URL: maximum.nl Summary: The HTTP 'X-Forwarded-Host' is dynamically used in the application without sanitization, allowing an attacker control of the input key. This can allow for self-XSS, or when a CDN or caching service is deployed, risk the CDN caching the request and serving the...

Security at the Edge - What is Gartner's SASE & why does it matter?

Recently, Gartner published a report called "Market Trends: How to Win as WAN Edge and Security Converge Into the Secure Access Service Edge" that dives into how to enable security and network access controls as-a-service from the cloud. But what is Gartner's SASE pronounced like "sassy"? The...

Tracking CVE-2019-11043 PHP Vulnerability – An Uncommon Chain of Events

On October 22, security researcher Omar Ganiev published a tweet regarding remote code execution vulnerability in PHP-FPM the FastCGI Process Manager running on the Nginx server. The tweet includes a link to a GitHub repository with an explanation of the vulnerability and a PoC proof-of-concept f...

New Cache Poisoning Attack Lets Attackers Target CDN Protected Sites

A team of German cybersecurity researchers has discovered a new cache poisoning attack against web caching systems that could be used by an attacker to force a targeted website into delivering error pages to most of its visitors instead of legitimate content or resources. The issue could affect...

Akamai Outlook: Optimizing Edge Delivery Performance and Monitoring

Written by: Ritesh Kalyanshetty and Sandeep Singh Pervasiveness of CDNs within the expanding Media and Entertainment Industry Media and entertainment companies, including content owners and over-the-top OTT service providers are living in an era symbolized by a dramatic increase in content...

Optimizing Video Streaming Performance with Origin-Assisted Prefetching

Online video streaming is everywhere today. It's available on the smallest hand-held devices to the largest of screens in our living rooms. Magically and for the most part, it works and provides a very captivating experience. However, if you step back to look at the overall architecture, media...

Real-Time Phishing Protections

In my previous blogs, I wrote about how phishing is no longer just an email problem, how the industrialization of phishing is being driven by the easy availability and low cost of phishing toolkits, and how current phishing defenses are being bypassed by attackers. In this post, I'm going to...

Authentication flaw

The AccessLogFilter class in Jira before version 8.4.0 allows remote anonymous attackers to learn details about other users, including their username, via an information expose through caching vulnerability when Jira is configured with a reverse Proxy and or a load balancer with caching or a CDN...

CVE-2019-14997

CVE-2019-14997 affects Jira AccessLogFilter, enabling remote anonymous attackers to learn details about other users (including usernames) via an information disclosure through caching when Jira is behind a reverse proxy/load balancer with caching or a CDN. Affected software is Jira before version...

CDN caching can lead to leak of user information - CVE-2019-14997

The AccessLogFilter class in Jira before version 8.4.0 allows remote anonymous attackers to learn details about other users, including their username, via an information expose through caching vulnerability when Jira is configured with a reverse Proxy and or a load balancer with caching or a CDN...

CDN caching can lead to leak of user information - CVE-2019-14997

The AccessLogFilter class in Jira before version 8.4.0 allows remote anonymous attackers to learn details about other users, including their username, via an information expose through caching vulnerability when Jira is configured with a reverse Proxy and or a load balancer with caching or a CDN...

Akamai Load Balancing to Lock-in Quality

The Right Service from the Right Edge at the Right Time Introduction As Akamai's Global Traffic Management for Cloud, Data Centers and CDNs blog introduces, Akamai's Intelligent Edge™ platform includes DNS and Layer 7 load balancing capabilities that combine to get users to the right edge at the...

Cloudflare’s recent 502 Bad Gateway outage blamed on bad software

By Waqas If you are visiting a website and it is displaying “502 Bad Gateway” error it is not your fault but an issue with Cloudflare. Cloudflare, the world's largest "Content Delivery Network" CDN on the internet has suffered a service disruption causing “502 Bad Gateway” error on thousands of...

Vxscan - Comprehensive Scanning Tool

Python3 comprehensive scanning tool, mainly used for sensitive file detection directory scanning and js leak interface, WAF/CDN identification, port scanning, fingerprint/service identification, operating system identification, weak password detection, POC scanning, SQL injection, winding Pass CD...

Magecart skimmers found on Amazon CloudFront CDN

Update 06-08-2019: The compromises of Amazon S3 buckets continue and some large sites are being affected. Our crawler spotted a malicious injection that loads a skimmer for the Washington Wizards page on the official NBA.com website. The skimmer was inserted in this JavaScript library:...

Traffic Management for Peace of Mind

Ensure Quality of Experience and Readiness with CDN Capacity Overflow Have you ever planned and launched a system with painstaking detail and, at some point in time, something unexpected breaks the system? An unexpected event might be an unanticipated scenario a bug! or user adoption beyond...

Do High Vanity Bitrates Choke Your Live OTT Service Out of the Gate?

Studies show that video consumption demand is growing faster than capacity. While capacity overhead does exist, current trends suggest that we'll see more bottlenecking on last-hop connectivity, especially with regionally targeted content. By pushing "vanity bitrates" -- those topmost speeds that...

Chaturbate: DoS attacks utilizing camo.stream.highwebmedia.com

DoS attacks utilizing camo.stream.highwebmedia.com Summary The asset proxy at camo.stream.highwebmedia.com used to embed external images linked by users fails to enforce 1. a timeout on slow responses if a little data is sent every 10 seconds a kind of "reverse-slowloris" attack 1. a size limit o...

CDN Tuning for OTT - "Why Doesn't it Already do That?"

When you initially onboarded your OTT traffic to a CDN, you probably went with default settings. And to be honest, why wouldn't you? A standard media configuration is designed for the short http-based segment delivery at scale. It removes the bottleneck of your origin connectivity, taking you fro...

HTTP/2 Will be Automatically Enabled by Default on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform

Users demand digital experiences that are fast, secure and visually engaging. To deliver on user expectations, companies craft web experiences that are richer and more interactive with the goal of driving more engagement. The result is increasingly complex websites that are comprised of high...