To CORS! The cause of, and solution to, your SPA problems!

To CORS! The cause of, and solution to, your SPA problems!

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a complex and commonly misunderstood concept that is often implemented wrong for the right reasons. In this talk we will explain the Same-Origin Policy (SOP) and CORS in an easy to understand way. We will then discuss poor implementations of CORS and the resulting issues. We'll continue by releasing research done on a number of development frameworks exposing poorly designed CORS libraries that default to the most dangerous behavior. We'll then demonstrate why all of this matters by conducting a distributed attack against the most common CORS configuration using audience participation and a new tool. Finally, we'll discuss the safest ways to implement CORS. The custom tools used during the talk will be released along with the presentation.

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