Collected research

The Powerful HTTP Request Smuggling

The Powerful HTTP Request Smuggling 💪

Ricardo Iramar dos Santos · Medium · 6 October 2020

HTTP request smuggling on a mobile device management provider's front end let the author inject a redirect into other users' responses. Because MDM clients follow redirects without user interaction, enrolled devices were steered to an attacker-controlled server and made to execute MDM commands, up to a full device wipe.

Record

Document

The Powerful HTTP Request Smuggling 💪

Researcher

Ricardo Iramar dos Santos

Published by

Medium

Date

6 October 2020

Topic

HTTP

In the archive

• Collected in the 2020 research round

Related sources

• Slack and Zomato case-study video

Tags

• request-smuggling
• desync
• open-redirect
• http
• proxy
• ios
• bug-bounty
• attack-chain
• owasp-a04-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Ricardo Iramar dos Santos, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 10 August 2026.