Web security exploits

type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications

branch of computer security specifically related to Internet, often involving browser security and the World Wide Web

type of malicious exploit of a website where unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user trusted by the web app, using image tags, hidden forms, XMLHttpRequest etc.

exploitation of a valid computer session to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system

thumb|upright=1.35|In a clickjacking attack, the user is presented with a false interface, where their input is applied to something they cannot see. Clickjacking (classified as a user interface redress attack or UI redressing) is a malicious technique of tricking a user into clicking on something different from what the user perceives, thus potentially revealing confidential information or allowing others to take control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous objects, including web pages.

form of unwanted software

unintended download of computer software from the Internet, either ① which a person has authorized but without understanding the consequences or ② download that happens without a person's knowledge, often a computer virus, spyware, malware

POODLE (which stands for "Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption") is a security vulnerability which takes advantage of the fallback to SSL 3.0. If attackers successfully exploit this vulnerability, on average, they only need to make 256 SSL 3.0 requests to reveal one byte of encrypted messages. Bodo Möller, Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz from the Google Security Team discovered this vulnerability; they disclosed the vulnerability publicly on October 14, 2014 (despite the paper being dated "September 2014"). On December 8, 2014, a variation of the POODLE vulnerability that affected

Type of web vulnerability

method used to facilitate phishing

application of internet security to web browsers

malicious web-based shell-like interface

Self-XSS (self cross-site scripting) is a type of security vulnerability used to gain control of victims' web accounts. In a Self-XSS attack, the victim of the attack runs malicious code in their own web browser, thus exposing personal information to the attacker.

FREAK ("Factoring RSA Export Keys") is a security exploit of a cryptographic weakness in the SSL/TLS protocols introduced decades earlier for compliance with U.S. cryptography export regulations. These involved limiting exportable software to use only public key pairs with RSA moduli of 512 bits or fewer (so-called RSA EXPORT keys), with the intention of allowing them to be broken easily by the National Security Agency (NSA), but not by other organizations with lesser computing resources. However, by the early 2010s, increases in computing power meant that they could be broken by anyone with a

cryptographic attack that forces the use of weaker or no encryption

computer security concept, to prevent cross-site scripting and related attacks

using visually similar characters in domain names to deceive users

computer security vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to the file system

type of attack on computer systems

browser exploit which allows a site attacker to set a cookie for a browser into the cookie domain of another site server

website that poses as another website, often allowing a malicious computer attack

Cyberattack allowing one person to know another person’s session identifier

A vulnerability that inserts invalid input, including line break codes, into an HTTP header, resulting in a false response or website tampering, and an attack that exploits this vulnerability

cybercrime

security vulnerability against a Diffie–Hellman key exchange ranging from 512-bit to 1024-bit keys, publicly reported on 20 May 2015

Man-in-the-browser (MITB, MitB, MIB, MiB), a form of Internet threat related to man-in-the-middle (MITM), is a proxy Trojan horse that infects a web browser by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in browser security to modify web pages, modify transaction content or insert additional transactions, all in a covert fashion invisible to both the user and host web application. A MitB attack will be successful irrespective of whether security mechanisms such as SSL/PKI and/or two- or three-factor authentication solutions are in place. A MitB attack may be countered by using out-of-band transaction

network security vulnerability exploiting the HTTP TRACE method

type of computer attack

web application vulnerability that occurs when HTTP headers are dynamically generated from user input; can allow for HTTP response splitting, session fixation (via Set-Cookie), cross-site scripting, and malicious redirect attacks

thumb|The official logo BREACH (a backronym: Browser Reconnaissance and Exfiltration via Adaptive Compression of Hypertext) is a security vulnerability against HTTPS when using HTTP compression. BREACH is built based on the CRIME security exploit. BREACH was announced at the August 2013 Black Hat USA conference by security researchers Angelo Prado, Neal Harris and Yoel Gluck. ==Details==

web-based malware tactic