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'