An often-overlooked benefit of NGINX Plus is how it makes protecting yourself against security threats quick and easy. We proactively inform NGINX Plus subscribers of security vulnerabilities and patches, provide help during attacks, support JWT and OIDC authentication, and more.
Tag: vulnerability
Tag: vulnerability
Trust No One: The Perils of Trusting User Input
A newly discovered security threat exploits a configuration that allows remote users to specify the server for a request in the HTTP Host header, and thus access potentially sensitive information. In this post we explain how to prevent this "cloud metadata" attack.
Mitigating the HTTPoxy Vulnerability with NGINX
Use NGINX/NGINX Plus to prevent the HTTPoxy vulnerability, which attacks CGI and FastCGI-like application interfaces, from being exploited on your servers.