Description

The server is missing the Referrer-Policy HTTP header. Alternatively, the headers configuration is unsafe.

Impact

Leak website domain and path to external services.

Recommendation

Set the Referrer-Policy header to no-referrer, same-origin, strict-origin, or strict-origin-when-cross-origin in the server responses.

Threat

Unauthorized attacker from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ 30 minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: H
• Privileges required: H
• User interaction: R
• Scope: U
• Confidentiality: L
• Integrity: N
• Availability: N

Temporal

• Exploit code maturity: P
• Remediation level: O
• Report confidence: C

Result

• Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
• Score:
• Base: 2.0
• Temporal: 1.8
• Severity:
• Base: Low
• Temporal: Low

Score 4.0

Default score using CVSS 4.0. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base 4.0

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: H
• Attack Requirements: N
• Privileges required: H
• User interaction: P
• Confidentiality (VC): L
• Integrity (VI): N
• Availability (VA): N
• Confidentiality (SC): N
• Integrity (SI): N
• Availability (SA): N

Threat 4.0

• Exploit maturity: P

Result 4.0

• Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
• Score:
• CVSS-BT: 1.1
• Severity:
• CVSS-BT: Low

Requirements

• 062.Define standard configurations
• 349.Include HTTP security headers

Fixes

• Java
• Elixir
• C-Sharp
• Go
• Ruby
• Dart
• Scala
• Python
• TypeScript

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