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Blizzard Update Agent DNS rebinding

The Blizzard Update Agent exposes a privileged JSON-RPC service on localhost and returns an authorization token before checking the request host. DNS rebinding lets an attacker-controlled website become same-origin with the agent, read the token, and send maintenance commands intended only for trusted Blizzard software.

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taviso

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