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Cache key injection: Smuggling poison through the door

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Nginx case studies show how ambiguous cache-key boundaries can map distinct requests to the same cached response. The article examines conditional cache poisoning and disclosure risks and distinguishes upstream host defaults from custom request-derived keys.

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Alex Brumen
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YesWeHack
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Injection

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