SSRF Attacks and Defenses: URL Parsing, Allowlists, and Cloud Metadata
SSRF Attacks and Defenses stop your servers from fetching attacker URLs. Learn allowlists, DNS checks, metadata blocks, and how to fail closed on parse.
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AI security starts with the same backend basics as any other system. Models and agents call URLs, read data and act on it, so old attacks find new doors.
So far this section holds SSRF attacks and defenses, which matters when an agent can fetch any link. For agent specific risks, see prompt injection in agents and tool sandboxing. More posts will follow as the series grows.
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SSRF Attacks and Defenses stop your servers from fetching attacker URLs. Learn allowlists, DNS checks, metadata blocks, and how to fail closed on parse.