In a recent development, a critical server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability has been discovered in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure servers, marked as CVE-2024-21893. Security experts have confirmed that this vulnerability is being actively exploited by multiple attackers, raising concerns over the security of affected systems worldwide.
Let’s Understand SSRF and Its Impact
SSRF vulnerabilities allow attackers to send crafted requests from the vulnerable server, potentially leading to unauthorized access to internal resources, sensitive data exposure, or even full system compromise.
Imagine you have a key to open doors in a building. Now, imagine someone tricks you into using that key to open doors you are not supposed to. That is what happens in an SSRF attack.
Normally, a website can only talk to the outside world through your web browser. But in an SSRF attack, the bad guys make the website talk to other places it is not supposed to, like secret internal parts of a company’s network or even random outside websites.
This can lead to big problems.
For example, if the website connects to a secret part of a company’s network, the bad guys might steal important information. Or if it connects to a random website, it might give away sensitive data, like your passwor
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