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# SSRF

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## What is SSRF?

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## Cause of the Vulnerability

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## SSRF Payload

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## Exercise

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Lets check the webpage

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After doing a number of check, we can write a simple bash script that will give us the answer.

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After a while, it shows that 5 ports are open

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We can find out how many users there are by looking at the /etc/passwd file

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Lets go to the source code

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