Security

What is Cache Poisoned Denial of Service?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

CPDoS or Cache Poisoned Denial of Service. It poisons the CDN cache. By manipulating certain header requests, the attacker forces the origin server to return a Bad Request error which is stored in the CDN’s cache. Thus, every request that comes after the attack will get an error page.