QID 150249

Date Published: 2022-05-31

QID 150249: Misconfigured Header: Cache-Control

Cache-Control header present but directives may not configured to adequately safeguard sensitive information.

For Example:
Cache-Control directive set to public.

max-age value is greater than 86400.

If directive is set to public, the resource can be stored by any cache.

If max-age value is greater than 86400 for sensitive information may lead to information leakage.

Solution

Please check that resources with sensitive information are not configured with Cache-Control public directive.

Also please make sure that max-age directive value set properly to not cache sensitive information for longer period than needed.

References:
Mozilla Documentation Cache-Control

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