Questions tagged [webserver]
A system whose primary function is to deliver web pages on request to clients.
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How can you make sure a remote web server is processing the right data and executing the code you expect? [closed]
Currently I'm trusting my web hoster to run my code on my behalf without tampering with the execution at some point.
What are some techniques to protect against this?
For instance, preventing the ...
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Web request TLS
What version of TLS would be required for a router that separates client requests from a web server behind a router?
Let's say the supported TLS client is 1.2 and so is the web server, BUT the router ...
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Where is the safest place to put servers
Currently, I have modem with built-in NAT and DMZ. I have 250Mb of webspace and unlimited emails supplied by my ISP on WAN. I want to move the webspace to my own PC on a LAN along with the emails so I ...
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Does a DDoS Attack affect the internet connection apart from the service it's attacking?
Lately I've been experiencing some crashes related to my internet connection, I'm on the process of pin-pointing what is causing the issue and one of those possible causes might be a DDoS attack, ...
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Trying to understand HTTP request containing base64 encoded part and email address
I have public webserver serving static html pages and when analyzing error logs I found type of attempted GET that I don't understand.
They are formed like this and fail because request is too long:
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How spamming entries in website database using the same IP address is possible?
I am working in a private company as VAPT Auditor. I am currently testing one of our project website which contains common features like login, sign up, etc. I mostly do manual testing using BurpSuite ...
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Is my website under attack?
I have a web server. I was investigting why my nginx is keep crashing. I noticed a few other issues in my logs.
Note: In the log report, I replace the name of my website with example.com and my second ...
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Is running PHP file_get_contents on random user-generated links safe?
In one of my PHP apps, I have a part where it scrapes the content of random links on the internet using file_get_contents, and then it runs a regex on this content to find all the email addresses in ...
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"Pass-through" website interception detection and prevention
I face some sort of "MitM" attack type that I don't really know how to search, because I don't really know what it is called, so I am in the dark here, and need some help and advice.
Let's ...
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Are there any attack vectors against the Smarty-PHP template engine when using a trusted template?
This is actually a general question about template engines.
If I use Smarty-PHP to generate a website, and the templates and content are both created by me (assumed non-malicious), does this create ...
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Parse a File on Client and Send to Server Without Client Manipulating Data
I have a desktop app that takes a file format and parses it to get some JSON data that is then send to a server.
My problem is figuring out if it is possible to somehow parse the data on the client ...
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Server Side Template Injection (SSTI): Difference between plaintext context and code context?
I am learning pentesting, currently studying Server Side Template Injection. I understood there are two types of SSTI - plaintext context and code context - but struggle to understand what exactly is ...
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Do I need https for a web server that will be used locally? [duplicate]
I have a web server that will be used to manage the stock of a warehouse in a factory. The web server will be accessed only locally so the clients can update and view the available stock. The server ...
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Is there a reason for a server-side limit on the number of HTTP headers allowed for each request?
The security team at my company has set a limit on the number of headers a HTTP request can contain (not header size, but an actual hard count limit on the number of headers).
A vendor has added a few ...
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What is <title>(.*?)<\/title> and how the attacker use that?
I had a log from my web server like this
[28/Aug/2022:12:57:02] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1684 "" "<title>(.*?)<\/title>"
What is this meaning and what exactly ...
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Is HTTP Request Smuggling domain/subdomain wide or directory wide?
I have a pretty good understanding of HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerabilities but one thing I still need some clarification on is if they are domain/subdomain wide or directory wide?
Here's what I mean:...
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Site "can't" change username, why? [closed]
There's a website I have an account on, and I needed to change my username. They said they were unable to change that. I requested to just have my account deleted, and then I would create a new ...
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Why is it a security concern to modify http.sys registry entries to allow web service to accept a longer query string?
I have an Http web service running on IIS. The Http service will be exposed to the public internet, but only authenticated client requests will be processed by the web service. The service allows ...
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What is the effect of the "&x=" in a SSRF? Is it something related to encoding?
I'm learning SSRF. I learnt that typing "&x=" kinda turn off the rest of an URL (like https://some.website.com/user?id=9&x=.website.com/api/item?id=9)
Everything that comes after the ...
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What is the intent behind these unknown HTTP Requests into my AWS Web Server?
I know about the usual port sniffers and mass scanners that just pop up on any web server, but this one looks interesting to me.
I figured out so far that those requests aren't really an issue for my ...
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Can attacker gain access to my private network application through pivoting and/or lateral movement?
I am using a public wifi network.
When I start a nodejs express server at my local system at port 3000, I can access that website on another device (that is connected to the same public wifi network) ...
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Do I need to set up super global SESSION for a web form?
I am building a web form in PHP, is just for the user to request information about my services or send comments, so I don‘t need the user to be logged with a username and a password, no databse. I ...
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How to find a potential JSON Java deserialization code vulnerability with a whitebox approach in web server source code?
I would like to know a somewhat general approach for white box vulnerability scanning, mainly focused around Java deserialization code bugs that could lead to RCEs (Remote Code Execution following ...
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Why is Nessus report HTTP running a web server on port 80 when I'm sure that it isn't?
From a Nessus scan I have the following output regarding HTTP and the use of port 80:
Info N/A 43111 HTTP Methods Allowed (per directory)
Info N/A 24260 HyperText ...
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Is it safe for website to generate fake profile pages?
Today I found a website which generates a fake profile when asked if said profile exists. Example: www.site.com/user/mycoolname doesn't exist yet. But if I put it in the browser for the site I get a ...
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Do WSGI servers connect to devices outside of the network?
I want to set up a plotly dashboard and view it from my browser.
Plotly gets set up as a flask application. I'm of the understanding that I should use a WSGI server to host it. I'm looking at waitress ...
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Recommended secure option for uploading files to web server from a dynamic IP?
I need the best way to access a webserver to upload/modify a PHP script. The website contains very sensitive information, gaining unauthorized access to this server and modifying files would lead to ...
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Url only works from the browser it is generated from. Copying it into a Curl Command fails, and gives a 403 error. How can I fix this?
I am doing some web scraping for streaming files, .m3u8 mime type. In this particular instance, I can't create a functional request that does not end up with a 403 Forbidden error.
How to reproduce:
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Multiple random requests for Non-Existent URLs from a single IP resulting in 404s
We sometimes get to see this behavior from a single IP address/logged in user -
There are a lot of hits on our server that have .png at the end of the URL which results in a 404 because we don't have ...
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How to detect web account vulnerability [duplicate]
I know I might take a lot of flack for asking this basic question, but I hope you'll be patient with me. I was looking at a few websites and analyzing the payload when sending a POST request to login.
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Securely storing password and encryption key on AWS
I have an EC2 Webserver on AWS which has a MYSQL database. The login data is stored on AWS using the Secret Manager. I have added an IAM role for the Server to get access to the password and an ...
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Do we need to check for cross-origin on server side?
Modern browsers don't allow cross-origin requests - those must be explicitly allowed by CORS headers. But looking at Java back ends like Tomcat/Spring MVC I see that it's possible to reject requests ...
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successfull log4j exploitation, or just normal traffic?
First, thanks in advance and sorry if I'm asking some really silly thing, this is not my expertise :)
I have a webserver just for testing my things. Last week I checked if it was vulnerable to log4j ...
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What should I do after an attempted Mozi attack?
I was testing a small webpage using Django's built-in server. The webpage simply shows the IP of the visitor of the webpage, and prints the IP address in the terminal. The server is hosted on a Ubuntu ...
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How can 2FA help prevent formjacking?
This article by Avira (part of NortonLifeLock) claims that 2FA (2-Factor Authentication) may be sufficient to protect against formjacking:
Enable 2-Factor Authentication: Create strong and complex ...
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Is it possible to hide a servers location on the internet?
Can you make a server appear to be in another country and how would you do it?
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Someone found an obfuscated path on my website. Is this possible without hacking my site?
I am running a server with Django and Nginx. I tried to hide the admin panel by assigning it a 50digit random string as URL (something like https://mydomain/asidfhifuerbdsi...). Now someone found this ...
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What does this potentially malicious php code do? [duplicate]
Somebody hacked my webserver and uploaded many of the following files with random names in different subdirectories of my webroot. The file looks something like this and - even though I managed to ...
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Does it make sense to configure the web server to deny obviously malicious requests?
I have a Ruby on Rails app behind Nginx. Every once in a while I see requests like GET /phpmyadmin or GET /wp-login.php. Since I don't have those tools installed, it's obvious that those are from ...
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Is there way to know what headers can be accepted by HTTP server?
Imagine that there is server required authentication for getting an access to some endpoint.
And developer added some logic to bypass the authentication: if server recieve HTTP header give_me_access=...
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Restrict web access with whitelists
Can I secure a website using a simple whitelist system?
My idea is to port forward a website www.example.com on my pc.
To secure it, I want to add a whitelist system. It will work like this:
When the ...
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How strict should I be in rejecting unexpected HTTP request parameters redux?
I read this: How strict should I be in rejecting unexpected query parameters?
Answer: No, do not error out on unexpected query string parameters.
But I just got a requirement from our security guy ...
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What is the most up-to-date secure method for storing .ENV variables?
I am improving the security on my php website. I am not using any frameworks or cms. The credentials are currently stored in plain text in the relevant php files. While researching, I came across this ...
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Changing $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] remotely
On a nginx web-server running the following config is to possible to change $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] remotely?:
user www;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
error_log /dev/stderr info;
events {
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Is this HSTS HTTP Response Header Misconfigured?
I recently discovered during a penetration test that the HSTS was returned by the application but in this format:
"Strict-TransportSecurity"
Instead of:
"Strict-Transport-Security"
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How to recover a hacked site with WSO Shell [duplicate]
Recently wordpress site on centos 7 server is hacked and WSO shell was uploaded.
Ive checked other sites and nothing was changed, Im using centos web panel and the root password also was not changed.
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How reverse proxy works?
I know that forward proxy can enhance security by replacing client IP's address with proxy server IP address. So, the web server or anyone else cannot identify the client identity who's requesting a ...
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Unclear attack(?) on web server: GET requests for tar files
I am currently looking at the logs of my server and it is currently targeted by an IP address in the Netherlands performing requests to routes such as /X.tar.gz, where they increment X from a to z and ...
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Confidentially seperating web content under single IP address
I am interested in exposing web content to strangers on the internet (Reddit, Discord, ..).
This content I wish to reside on the same web server under which personal web content resides.
(None of this ...
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Backendly preventing database injections on simple web forms [duplicate]
I have a simple PHP-HTML-CSS contact form which saves emails to a local email client's database (in my case, Roundcube's database, which is a standalone MySQL database, I think --- I haven't used the ...
