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SSRF Attacks: Turning Servers Into Proxies

RootRecon TeamNovember 22, 2024 8 min read

What is SSRF?

SSRF forces a server to make requests on the attacker's behalf...

Cloud Metadata Endpoints

AWS, GCP, and Azure expose metadata APIs that SSRF can leak credentials from...

Bypassing SSRF Filters

DNS rebinding, IPv6, and URL encoding tricks bypass naive protections...

Mitigation Strategies

Whitelist allowed destinations and block internal IP ranges at the application layer...