Malleability of ECDSA (and DSA) signatures, JWTs, etc.
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This blog posts explains that ECDSA and DSA signatures are malleable, that JWTs can be malleable as well and how this can be used to bypass some broken implementations of JWT deny lists (for revocation of JWTs or anti-replay protection).
If you are trying to understand the difference between the different cryptography-related formats (PKS#12, PKCS#8, PEM, X.509 certificate, DER, JWK, BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY??? 🤯), you will hopefully find some useful information here (and a lot more your did not wanted to know about).
PortSwigger “Concealing payloads in URL credentials” talks about concealing XSS payloads in URL credentials. The nice thing is that this makes the payload invisible to WAFs and other server-side XSS filters. You can actually conceal the payloads in other places