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CORS security: reflecting any origin header value when configured to * is dangerous #55

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When CORS policy is configured to origin:"*", current go CORS handler will actively convert it to reflect any Origin header value. This kind of behavior is dangerous and has caused many security problems in the past.

Some similar security issues:
cyu/rack-cors#126
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/148

Some related blog posts:
http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/10/exploiting-cors-misconfigurations-for.html
https://ejj.io/misconfigured-cors/

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