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OWASP SSRF Prevention Cheat Sheet

Official docs outline

8 sections
  1. Context

    What SSRF is and why it matters.

  2. SSRF Common Flow

    Typical attack sequence and impact.

  3. Case 1 Trusted Destinations

    Allow-listing known destinations and avoiding user-controlled URLs.

  4. Case 2 Arbitrary Destinations

    Validating IPs and DNS, blocking internal ranges and redirects.

  5. IMDSv2 in AWS

    Protecting cloud instance metadata from SSRF.

  6. Deny-List Last Resort

    Limitations of block lists for SSRF.

  7. Webhook Security

    Safe webhook delivery and receiving including SSRF concerns.

  8. Network Segmentation

    Egress filtering and segmentation limiting SSRF reach.

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