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June 2023

Application Security 101 - HTTP Headers Information Disclosure

This is the second article in our Application Security 101 mini-series. Read our first blog on how to configure HTTP response headers with security best practices. This time we’re going to discuss another misconfiguration that we often find during website penetration testing. This is not necessarily a ‘vulnerability’, however information disclosure via HTTP response headers can provide exact version information of the web server or web technologies in use on the underlying host.