New ‘ALBeast’ Vulnerability Exposes Weakness in AWS Application Load Balancer

As many as 15,000 applications using Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Application Load Balancer (ALB) for authentication are potentially susceptible to a configuration-based issue that could expose them to sidestep access controls and compromise applications.
That’s according to findings from Israeli cybersecurity company Miggo, which dubbed the problem ALBeast.
« This vulnerability allows attackers to

As many as 15,000 applications using Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Application Load Balancer (ALB) for authentication are potentially susceptible to a configuration-based issue that could expose them to sidestep access controls and compromise applications.
That’s according to findings from Israeli cybersecurity company Miggo, which dubbed the problem ALBeast.
« This vulnerability allows attackers to