I've found a very good explanation of XSS:
http://www.spidynamics.com/whitepapers/SPIcross-sitescripting.pdf
Jeff Tulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Novell, Inc., The Leading Provider of Net Business Solutions
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Actually th
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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...
>
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
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
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
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
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
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
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