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Use octet stream downloads

Summary

The system should download files coming from untrusted sources, such as user-uploaded files, using octet stream downloads.

Description

User-uploaded files should generally be considered to be untrusted input. If the appropriate Content Security Policy is not set when opening a file, browsers may render it and interpret potentially malicious code. Therefore, user-uploaded files should be served by either octet stream downloads, or from an unrelated domain, such as a cloud file storage bucket. This reduces the risk of XSS vectors or other attacks from the uploaded file.

Supported In

This requirement is verified in following services

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