SSRF and File Upload Security: URL Fetching and Uploads That Don't Hand Over Your Network
Link previews, webhooks, image import and file uploads look like boring features, yet they keep showing up in incident reports. Why SSRF blocklists fail, a safe fetch in Node with undici and pinned IPs, IMDSv2, and an upload pipeline: presigned S3, magic bytes, sharp, a separate domain and async scanning.