WICG / WICG/declarative-partial-updates
Fork bombing
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- Forks
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Description
It is possible with this proposal if you control any part of the content of the web page to output content which will DOS the system by expanding a small chunk of HTML to a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very large chunk of DOM.
Yes I generated a lot of very's by copy pasting a few of them, because that's what a fork bomb does.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the declarative partial updates proposal and the issue's HTML/DOM expansion concern. Determine whether a small, user-controlled fragment can cause unbounded DOM growth, then define and verify a bounded behavior before considering the issue complete.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- security, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100