RE: Possible XSS in User-Agent
Nicolas,
This is no more an XSS than creating and misusing an arbitrary header:
GET / HTTP/1.1
FooBar: <script>alert();</script>
...
<%=request.getHeader("FooBar")%>
The headers are **always** modifiable by an advanced user, a script-kiddie with
a utility, a clever firewall, a proxy server, etc. Just because information
resides in the header doesn't mean that it doesn't need to be validated, just
like everything else.
This is not a "bug" in any language, browser, or protocol. As per RFC 2616, the
User-Agent field is defined as:
User-Agent = "User-Agent" ":" 1*( product | comment )
Example:
User-Agent: CERN-LineMode/2.15 libwww/2.17b3
So in other words, don't just echo input from the browser back to the user.
This is no more than a trivial example of "Why You Should Validate Your Input".
This could be considered an XSS vector into applications that fail to validate,
but no more so than any other header (or GET/POST variable).
Regards,
Michael Scovetta
Computer Associates
Senior Application Developer
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Subject: Possible XSS in User-Agent
Analyzing User Agent does not make filters of anyone type, being able
to inject xss or HTML.
POC
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let us suppose that the page we visit has the navigator´s check
You are sailing with Mozila Firefox....
In php, this simply is
<? echo $HTTP_USER_AGENT ?>
then we install any kind of soft which allows us to modify the user
agent, in mozila _firefox you could use this plugin
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=59
Example:
USER AGENT: <h1>Soulblack</h1>
USER AGENT:<script>alert('SoulBlack')</script>
it works correctly :).
The logfile of apache ;
127.0.0.1 - - [23/Jan/2006:14:54:02 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1"
404 283 "-" "<script>alert('SoulBLack')</script>" "-"
the tests were made with php and apache.
The bug could be in php, or in the protocol , we have not even probe
in another language like asp , etc ...
if the bug resides in the protocol, the model of control of user agent
could be [a-z][0-9] .
Any suggest or comment?
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