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Discussion on: How to avoid Meltdown, Spectre and CSRF Attacks on Web with CORP, CORB, and CORS?

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Beto Muniz • Edited

Indeed. CORS is useful only against CSRF due to the post context. About Spectre and Meltdown not be effective through the browsers, I could not agree 100%, since just recently (2 weeks ago) Firefox released Site Isolation in a solid response for such attacks. Still, thinking about thousands of users using outdated or old browsers, create a barrier in your application is a must-have recommendation to ensure an extra layer of security until old or outdated browsers are in use. So don't ignore such features if you can.

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It's not about ignoring security features in browsers. You are attempting to correlate/associate irrelevant vulnerabilities as being able to be defended against using CORS, etc. That's simply not the case and spreads misinformation.

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Beto Muniz

Not sure what you are meaning about spread misinformation, but for you, CORS can't be used to defend against CSRF attacks? CORP/CORB can't be used against Spectre/Meltdown attacks? I would love to know where you're studying because my references say exactly the opposite.

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