Episode 85: Practical Applications of DEFCON 32 Web Research

Episode 85: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin and Joel talk through some of the research coming out of DEFCON, mainly from the PortSwigger team. Web timing attacks, cache exploitation, and exploits related to email protocols are all featured. Plus we also talk some fun Apache hacks from Orange Tsai

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Resources

Listen to the whispers

https://portswigger.net/research/listen-to-the-whispers-web-timing-attacks-that-actually-work

Splitting the email atom

https://portswigger.net/research/splitting-the-email-atom

Gotta cache 'em all

https://portswigger.net/research/gotta-cache-em-all

HTTP Garden

https://github.com/narfindustries/http-garden

Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server!

https://blog.orange.tw/2024/08/confusion-attacks-en.html#%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8F-2-2-2-Local-Gadget-to-XSS

Trusted API Types

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Trusted_Types_API

Untrusted Types

https://github.com/filedescriptor/untrusted-types

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:09:45) 'Listen to the whispers'

(00:30:03) 'Splitting the email atom'

(00:58:42) 'Gotta cache 'em all'

(01:21:03) 'Confusion Attacks'