Making HTTP header injection critical with one prompt
PortSwigger now automates the full escalation chain from HTTP header injection to CRLF-powered request-smuggling desync in a single Burp scan check, turning low-severity findings into critical proxy-level exploits.
Summary written by editorial AI · Source link below
You can now escalate HTTP header injection to a CRLF-Powered Desync and exploit it to serve random users a redirect to your collaborator, in a single prompt. We’ve just introduced a new scan check for
Editorial Analysis
Enterprises running multi-tier reverse proxies may harbour dormant header-injection flaws that are now trivially exploitable via automated tooling.
Run the updated Burp scan against internet-facing reverse proxies and prioritise remediation of any CRLF desync findings.
Forward-looking interpretation drafted by editorial AI under human review — not a reproduction of the source. See methodology.
External link — opens at PortSwigger Research in a new tab.
More from the Research Desk
- Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 23d
- A Gingerbread House for LLM Agents: Source-Planned Honeypots That Lure Autonomous Attackers into an Isolated Shadow3d
- LABBA: LLM-Assisted Behavioral Biometric Authentication3d
- A Cyber Range Evaluation of Inductive Autonomous Network Incident Response Agents3d
- KeHoSu: Keyed Homoglyph Substitution for Authenticated Text Provenance over Copy-Paste Channels3d