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MB-R154

HUMAN VERIFICATION REQUIRED ASVS 4.1.3 Trusted intermediary headers

MB-C15 ASVS Level 2 Human Assurance Medium

Any HTTP header field used by the application and set by an intermediary layer, such as a load balancer, a web proxy, or a backend-for-frontend service, cannot be overridden by the end-user. Example headers might include X-Real-IP, X-Forwarded-\*, or X-User-ID.