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Json hijacking whitespaces


Geoff Burke
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Very revealing post about Json whitespace hijacking by Stefan Grimminck which I decided to share. To summarize Json allows “insignificant whitespace” characters as the article says and this can be leveraged to smuggle code into a system. Json is literally everywhere so you can imagine the possible consequences. Luckily Yara can be leveraged and he even provides the yara file

https://grimminck.medium.com/json-smuggling-a-far-fetched-intrusion-detection-evasion-technique-51ed8f5ee05f

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coolsport00
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  • Veeam Legend
  • 4139 comments
  • February 23, 2024

Thanks for sharing this possible threat and Yara to help detect it Geoff. 


Chris.Childerhose
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  • Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
  • 8492 comments
  • February 23, 2024

Nice to see Yara at work with Veeam and this vulnerability.  Thanks for sharing this.


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