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H3-2026-0068

Missing HTTP Security Response Headers

Category SECURITY_MISCONFIGURATION
Base Score 0.1

Description

A web application returned responses that omitted one or more recommended HTTP security headers, such as Strict-Transport-Security, Content-Security-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors directive), Referrer-Policy, or Permissions-Policy.

Impact

Missing security headers weaken the browser-side defenses that harden an application against clickjacking, MIME-type sniffing, protocol downgrade, and referrer leakage. They do not constitute an exploitable weakness on their own, but they lower the bar for other client-side attacks, such as cross-site scripting.

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