CWE-200
ISO27001-A.14.1.2
OWASP 2013-A6
OWASP 2017-A6

Cross-site Referrer Leakage through usage of strict-origin in Referrer-Policy

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Summary

Invicti detected that origin leakage is possible due to use of strict-origin in the Referrer-Policy implementation.

If a comma-separated referrer-policy is specified in the header, fallback policy is used only if the browser does not support the set referrer-policy, which may cause Cross-site Referrer Leakage.

Impact

Origin (Domain) information can be leaked through Referer header, if a request occurs to a site either has same or a higher protocol.

Remediation

If leakage of the origin is a problem for the site, see all available options by using links in External References and use a secure one.

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