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$10k host header

Sending a request to Google App Engine's public front end with the Host header set to an internal googleplex.com hostname made it serve that internal application, sidestepping the single sign-on proxy that normally gates it. The researcher reached Google's confidential internal question-and-answer site this way and was paid 10,000 dollars.

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Ezequiel Pereira
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Blogger
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HTTP

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