API Security Weekly: Issue 160

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This week, we have a vulnerability in the AWS API gateway that allows a potential cache-poisoning attack, disclosed at the recent BlackHat Europe conference, a guide on how to harden Kubernetes API access, a report from Forbes on the need to take API security more seriously, and predictions on what’s possible on the next OWASP API security Top 10.

Vulnerability: AWS API Gateway Vulnerable to HTTP Header-Smuggling Attack

At the recent BlackHat Europe security conference, web security researcher Daniel Thatcher disclosed vulnerabilities relating to the AWS API gateway that allowed HTTP header smuggling. Currently, AWS has not responded to this research nor offered a comment regarding the potential vulnerabilities in their API gateway.

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