Re: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread Jeff Tulley
I've found a very good explanation of XSS: http://www.spidynamics.com/whitepapers/SPIcross-sitescripting.pdf Jeff Tulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (801)861-5322 Novell, Inc., The Leading Provider of Net Business Solutions http://www.novell.com >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/29/03 2:26:54 PM >>> Actually th

RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread David Rees
On Mon, September 29, 2003 1at 2:49 pm, Shapira, Yoav sent the following > > Howdy, > OK, makes sense. Thanks for the examples! Glad I could help. Hopefully you (and others) can use this information while designing web applications to avoid similar XSS issues in the future even if they are relat

Re: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread Tim Funk
Actually this could be issue on a poorly configured site where the admin does not override the default error pages. It would make it very easy to steal someone's cookies or session. So while might be an issue (I personally haven't checked), its not an issue if the admin configures custom error

Re: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread Bill Barker
- Original Message - From: "David Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability > On Mon, September 29, 2003 1at 2:32 pm, Bill Bar

Re: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread Remy Maucherat
David Rees wrote: Anyone know how serious this is? Lol. If you're affected by XSS, then you have a problem (no site in the world deserves any privilege: *all* need javascript blocking these days). It also appears to affect Tomcat 4.1.27 when using mod_jk as well. Below is a sample trace of a HT

RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Howdy, OK, makes sense. Thanks for the examples! Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-Original Message- >From: David Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:50 PM >To: Tomcat Developers List >Subject: RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerab

RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread David Rees
On Mon, September 29, 2003 1at 2:34 pm, Shapira, Yoav sent the following > > Howdy, > This is interesting, hopefully you won't mind educating me a bit > further... Not at all, but keep in mind I haven't studied all that much myself... ;-) >>> - Is it really a vulnerability? What can you get from

RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread Chad Johnson
Group, Inc. -Original Message- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:34 PM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability Howdy, This is interesting, hopefully you won't mind educating me a bit further... >

RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Howdy, This is interesting, hopefully you won't mind educating me a bit further... >> - Is it really a vulnerability? What can you get from this "exploit"? > >You can hijack the user's session or steal information from a user's >cookie pretty easily with a XSS flaw such as this one. How would y

Re: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread David Rees
On Mon, September 29, 2003 1at 2:32 pm, Bill Barker sent the following > Remy has already patched the HTTP Connector for this one (both Tomcat > 4&5). I believe that the patch still needs to be ported to the JK2 > Connector. Thanks for the update, Bill. Hope to see Tomcat 4.1.28 out soon, look li

Re: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread Bill Barker
CTED]> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 11:57 AM Subject: RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability Howdy, I'm not a big security buff, but three things come to mind: - The original post with the "exploit" is more than a year old, yet we haven't heard anything about this

RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread David Rees
On Mon, September 29, 2003 1at 1:57 am, Shapira, Yoav sent the following > I'm not a big security buff, but three things come to mind: > - The original post with the "exploit" is more than a year old, yet we > haven't heard anything about this actually used maliciously -- how come? Can't answer th

RE: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread Shapira, Yoav
ira Millennium ChemInformatics >-Original Message- >From: David Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:41 PM >To: Tomcat Developers List >Subject: Re: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability > >Anyone know how serious this is? > >It also appears to af

Re: Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-29 Thread David Rees
Anyone know how serious this is? It also appears to affect Tomcat 4.1.27 when using mod_jk as well. Below is a sample trace of a HTTP session. -Dave > telnet localhost 8080 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. GET /666%0a%0aalert("asdf");666.jsp HTTP/1.0 Host: l

Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 XSS vulnerability

2003-09-28 Thread Kan Ogawa
Hi, Jakarta Tomcat 4.1 cross-site scripting vulnerability, which was reported last year, is not yet resolved. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/288502/2002-08-16/2002-08-22/0 I verified this vulnerability on Tomcat 4.1.27 with Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector. http://localhost:8080/666%0a%0aalert(