Mitigating Fortnite Vulnerabilities with BIG-IP ASM

A recently published research by Checkpoint introduced a couple of undiscovered vulnerabilities in the online gaming platform of “Epic Games” – the developers of the famous "Fortnite" game.

The impact demonstrated in the Checkpoint research stemmed from an SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities. The payloads published can be mitigated by BIG-IP ASM with the following signatures:

Figure 1: Cross Site Scripting Payload blocked by existing signatures.

Figure 2: SQL-Injection payload blocked by multiple existing signatures.

Additional Reading

https://research.checkpoint.com/hacking-fortnite/

 

Published Jan 16, 2019
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