Majority response status codes 1XX

firetail:majority-status-code-100

Type:

Detection

Rule Severity:

Info

Over half of an API's response status codes over a given time period were in the 1XX range.

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Remediation

Investigate the API to verify if it should be returning a majority of responses with 1XX status codes.

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More findings

Average request header size elevated

Insecure host (OAS3)

Missing rate limit headers

Plaintext API key

Authentication removed

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