Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:

Right now we do not verify the nonce using in digest. This means that
an attacker can replay the response from another site or section
on the web site if

->   the users username+password is the same across the site.
->   the realm name is the same

Unfortunately that is often the case (and for the real, there
is a lot of DAV and webdav out there).

Below somewhat addresses that by veryfing that the nonce
is actually our own.

This doesn't appear to check that the timestamp is anywhere near now, which would prevent same-site replays...


Cheers,

Ben.

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