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Wouldn't this be hard to exploit from an attackers poitn of view? I mean there is no way to know what data was currently in RAM, it is at best a blind attack.

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If I understand correctly, you could literally keep smashing f5 on an affected page and get a different chunk of memory every time. An attacker could have potentially collected a lot very quickly with a simple script.

That's, from what I understand, completely correct. Not only that, but because of the nature of the flaw, it's not clear to me that the attackers would be generating any real anomalies by doing so. They're just fetching a particular pattern of otherwise non-notable web pages.

But it's a blind attack that is much more likely to hit big players.

And seeing as cloudflare has some of the biggest pipes on the net, it would be easy to saturate a pipe to gather as much data as possible from any sites you can find that are affected.

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