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Recursive File Include DoS

Recursive File Include - new face of DoS attacks - Websecurity

Recursive File Include: a local file include whose parameter propagates into every included file, so page.php?include=page.php makes the application include itself without bound and exhausts the server. The author's own English version of his Ukrainian post; names three live 2007 examples and notes full automatic recursion works only in PHP, with a manual variant for ASP.

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Recursive File Include - new face of DoS attacks - Websecurity

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websecurity.com.ua

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In the archive

• Collected in the 2008 research round

Tags

• dos
• lfi
• php
• abuse-of-functionality
• case-study
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a03-2021
• owasp-a04-2021

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