Web Cache Poisoning Techniques

Web cache Poisoning Web cache poisoning is not web cache deception, is not response splitting or request smuggling web cache deception tricking caches into storing sensitive information so the attackers can access to it. web cache poisoning is serve payloads to users via cache responses Cache keys: The unique identifier that the server wont cache (refresh based on that: only host + path) “Everything that is not part of the cache key is part of the cache poisoning attack surface” ...

February 10, 2024 · 11 min · 2195 words · Jesus Lujan

HackTheBox Web Challenges

Templated Dificulty: easy Description: Can you exploit this simple mistake? Solution First we visit the site and see that uses jinja2, this template is susceptible to SSTI attacks. We see that the directory searched is rendered in the page with 25, so its vulnerable to SSTI. We use the payload that will allow us to RCE on the server to read the file flag.txt, we extract it from PayloadsAllTheThings. ...

July 1, 2022 · 2 min · 284 words · Jesus Lujan