HSTS vulnerability for OCR server on port 8555
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HSTS vulnerability for OCR server on port 8555

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Article ID: 171301

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Products

Data Loss Prevention Enforce

Issue/Introduction

Penetration test shows that HSTS Missing From HTTPS Server (OCR Server )

Cause

OCR server uses Tomcat  to handle the REST request sent by Detection server.

Resolution

This vulnerability does not affect the OCR server.

This is a false positive since this HSTS header is required for browser clients communication.  

In this communication, OCR system is “Server” and DLP detection server is “Client”. OCR server handles requests from the detector in the very strict and specified format and responds only on such requests and no other.

DLP detection server is not a browser-based client. Hence the above vulnerability does not affect OCR detection server.