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Max-Forwards Header - Detect

ID: maxforwards-headers-detect

Severity: info

Author: righettod

Tags: miscellaneous,misc,max-forwards

Description

Section titled “Description”

Max-Forwards response header is specified.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: maxforwards-headers-detect


info:
  name: Max-Forwards Header - Detect
  author: righettod
  severity: info
  description: Max-Forwards response header is specified.
  reference:
    - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Max-Forwards
    - https://http.dev/max-forwards
    - https://twitter.com/irsdl/status/1337299267652825088
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    shodan-query: "Max-Forwards:"
    fofa-query: header="max-forwards"
  tags: miscellaneous,misc,max-forwards


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}"


    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'contains(to_lower(header), "max-forwards:")'


    extractors:
      - type: regex
        part: header
        regex:
          - '(?i)max-forwards:\s+([0-9]+)'
# digest: 4a0a0047304502205c29e455d27fad665079c7ed2fae67096306c9b2f6b3dfc34193698e3d830672022100ccaefc48fcb6b38db88234dbe5bfa7eb2b4983f430ec54063db8f2ec715e4cfe:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/miscellaneous/maxforwards-headers-detect.yaml"

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