So if I understand, this is not a case of your app having some kind of vulnerability, but the attack was to bomb it with legitimate requests? I am curious to know what the attacker's rows looked like, were they garbage data?
Yep, they were just random alphanumeric characters that passed my POST validations.
Using user input as actual filenames is still a terrible idea. Consider to use an internal key or hashed string as filenames.
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So if I understand, this is not a case of your app having some kind of vulnerability, but the attack was to bomb it with legitimate requests? I am curious to know what the attacker's rows looked like, were they garbage data?
Yep, they were just random alphanumeric characters that passed my POST validations.
Using user input as actual filenames is still a terrible idea. Consider to use an internal key or hashed string as filenames.