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Critical vulnerability in AJAX technology [1]

Anonymous Reader writes "Imperva Application Defense Center announced the discovery of a critical vulnerability in DWR (Direct Web Reporting), a key underlying technology in the AJAX web application development framework. This client-side vulnerability can be exploited to launch DoS attacks and break into back-end servers and databases [2]."

Link: net-security.org [2]

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[1] https://www.linux.com/news/critical-vulnerability-ajax-technology
[2] http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=4536