Insecure or unset HTTP headers - Referrer-Policy
Description
The server is missing the Referrer-Policy HTTP header. Alternatively, the headers configuration is unsafe.
Impact
Leak website domain and path to external services.
Recommendation
Set the Referrer-Policy header to no-referrer, same-origin, strict-origin, or strict-origin-when-cross-origin in the server responses.
Threat
Unauthorized attacker from the Internet.
Expected Remediation Time
⌚ 30 minutes.
Score
Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.
Base
- Attack vector: N
- Attack complexity: H
- Privileges required: H
- User interaction: R
- Scope: U
- Confidentiality: L
- Integrity: N
- Availability: N
Temporal
- Exploit code maturity: P
- Remediation level: O
- Report confidence: C
Result
- Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
- Score:
- Base: 2.0
- Temporal: 1.8
- Severity:
- Base: Low
- Temporal: Low
Score 4.0
Default score using CVSS 4.0 . It may change depending on the context of the src.
Base 4.0
- Attack vector: N
- Attack complexity: H
- Attack Requirements: N
- Privileges required: H
- User interaction: P
- Confidentiality (VC): L
- Integrity (VI): N
- Availability (VA): N
- Confidentiality (SC): N
- Integrity (SI): N
- Availability (SA): N
Threat 4.0
- Exploit maturity: P
Result 4.0
- Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- Score:
- CVSS-BT: 1.1
- Severity:
- CVSS-BT: Low
Requirements
Fixes
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