On October 14, 2025, Microsoft released a security update addressing CVE-2025-55315, a vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that allows HTTP request smuggling. While request smuggling is a known technique, ...

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between PUT and POST methods is that a PUT is restricted to create or update ...

A desync attack method leveraging HTTP/1.1 vulnerabilities impacted many websites and earned researchers more than $200,000 in bug bounties. New variants of the HTTP request smuggling attack method ...

Abstract: HTTP/3 will be the new de-facto standard for communication in web applications. Despite its increasing integration into modern browsers, its security properties have not yet been fully ...

Attackers are chaining two flaws in the wild to bypass authentication and escalate privileges via the PAN-OS management web interface to gain root privileges on Palo Alto Networks firewalls. Palo Alto ...

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When it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, every detail matters — including the HTTP headers. But what exactly are HTTP headers, and why should you care? HTTP headers allow the ...

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of ongoing phishing campaigns that abuse refresh entries in HTTP headers to deliver spoofed email login pages that are designed to harvest users' credentials.

Abstract: The Request Smuggling Via HTTP/2 Cleartext (H2C Smuggling) attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the handling of HTTP request headers by proxy servers, allowing attackers to bypass security ...