Feb. 15, 2024, noon | Panchanan Panigrahi

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Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) flaws occur when an API is fetching a remote resource without validating the user-supplied URL. It enables an attacker to coerce the application to send a crafted request to an unexpected destination, even when protected by a firewall or a VPN.





SSRF in Modern Application 🚀



Modern concepts in application development make SSRF more common and more dangerous.


More common - the following concepts encourage developers to access an external resource based on user input: Webhooks, …

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