Module 18 · CDN as Attack Surface

Manish Garg
Manish Garg Associate of (ISC)² · RingSafe
Apr 27, 2026
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Last updated: April 29, 2026

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CDN was once a passive cache. Now: edge functions, header rewriting, cache key manipulation, custom routing. Each is a new attack surface.

CDN was once a passive cache. Now: edge functions, header rewriting, cache key manipulation, custom routing. Each is a new attack surface.

Cache poisoning, cache deception, edge-function privilege escalation, header injection between CDN and origin — all bug classes that didn’t exist when CDN was just static-asset cache.

The mindset: list every CDN feature you use. For each, ask “what does it transform between client and origin?” Each transformation is testable.

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