The cybersecurity researchers at Synk and Team82 have recently identified multiple bugs in URL parsing libraries that could allow attackers to perform several attacks and among them the most brutal attacks are like:-
While due to these bugs various web apps are also impacted, and it is claimed that all these bugs are raised from the inconsistencies of the affected parsing libraries.
In analysis, a total of 16 URL parsing libraries was analyzed and among them, it has been found that eight vulnerabilities that are largely occurred due to the following reasons:-
And here we have also mentioned those eight vulnerabilities below:-
In total five categories of URL parsing inconsistencies were discovered and here they are:-
Moreover, for exploitation, the open-redirect vulnerabilities are famous among threat actors and they are used broadly since they allow the attacker to perform the attacks like:-
When a user-controlled input was accepted by a web application, it automatically redirects the user after a certain action through the URL that was specified by the web application.
In short, in this event by exploiting this technique the threat actors redirects the users to a malicious look-alike website and then exploit them.
Here are the best security practices that are needed to be followed and also recommended by the experts are mentioned below:-
Since these types of attacks are sophisticated, stealthy, and increasing rapidly, so, to avoid or protect the web apps from hackers the developers have to follow and adopt robust security practices that are mentioned above.
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