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Practical Applications of DEFCON 32 Web Research (Ep. 85)

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'