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Firefox Blocks 0.0.0.0 IP Addresses: Tell Us What This Means To You! (connect.mozilla.org)

submitted 7 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.world

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[–] alexchapman@lemm.ee -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Um, OK? I dunno why you'd wanna block access to that IP.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The first hyperlink in that post explains exactly why:

https://www.oligo.security/blog/0-0-0-0-day-exploiting-localhost-apis-from-the-browser

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 7 months ago

If a remote page can cause your browser to do fetches on your local machine, it can potentially poke at a lot of important stuff that has Web UIs running on the local machine.