1. Web Security Academy
  2. Request smuggling
  3. Advanced
  4. Request tunnelling
  5. Lab

Lab: Web cache poisoning via HTTP/2 request tunnelling

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This lab is vulnerable to request smuggling because the front-end server downgrades HTTP/2 requests and doesn't consistently sanitize incoming headers.

To solve the lab, poison the cache in such a way that when the victim visits the home page, their browser executes alert(1). A victim user will visit the home page every 15 seconds.

The front-end server doesn't reuse the connection to the back-end, so isn't vulnerable to classic request smuggling attacks. However, it is still vulnerable to request tunnelling.

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