Facebook SSRF Dashboard allows hunting SSRF vulnerabilities

Facebook developed a new tool that allows security experts to look for Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities in their software.

Facebook announced to have designed a new tool, named SSRF Dashboard, that allows security researchers to search for Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities.

Server-side request forgery is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce the server-side application to make HTTP requests to an arbitrary domain chosen by the attacker.

“In a typical SSRF attack, the attacker might cause the server to make a connection to internal-only services within the organization’s infrastructure. In other cases, they may be able to force the server to connect to arbitrary external systems, potentially leaking sensitive data such as authorization credentials.”

“This tool is a simple UI where researchers can generate unique internal endpoint URLs for targeting. The UI will then show the number of times these unique URLs have been hit as a result of a SSRF attempt. Researchers can leverage this tool as part of their SSRF proof of concept to reliably determine if they have been successful.” states Facebook.

SSRF Dashboard allows researchers to create unique internal endpoint URLs that could be targeted by SSRF attacks and determine if they have been hit. The tool allows researchers to test their SSRF proof-of-concept (PoC) code.

Pentesters could report any SSRF flat to the company by including the ID of the SSRF attempt url that they used along with their PoC.

Additional information on the utility can be found here.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, SSRF)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.