Use consistent encoding

Use consistent encoding

Summary

System components must use the same encodings and parsers.

Description

System components use structured messages to communicate with other components. When these messages include input from untrusted sources and this input is not properly escaped, they become prone to the insertion of malicious commands. A part of the escaping process can be done by encoding the output messages. However, all components must use consistent encoding in order to prevent attacks that benefit from the presence of different parsing behaviors, e.g., Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and Remote File Inclusion (RFI) attacks.

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