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Re: Web 2.0 backdoors made easy with MSIE & XMLHttpRequest



Michal Zalewski wrote:
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Michal Zalewski wrote:

  xmlhttp.open("GET\thttp://dione.ids.pl/\tHTTP/1.0\n\n";, "x",true);

Funny enough, Paul Szabo was quick to point out that Amit Klein found the
same vector that I used here for client-side backdoors in May 2006 (still
not patched?! *shrieks in horror*), but for cache poisoning:

  "IE + some popular forward proxy servers = XSS, defacement (browser cache 
poisoning)"
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434931

This is getting depressing. May 2006.

Much worse. The basic technique already appeared in two of my previous write-ups:

"Exploiting the XmlHttpRequest object in IE - Referrer spoofing, and a lot more..." (September 2005)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/411585

"XS(T) attack variants which can, in some cases, eliminate the need for TRACE </archive/107/308433/30/0/threaded>" (January 2003)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/107/308433

The 2005 text does briefly mention "Accessing content / web-scanning" (take a look at Notes 1-3).

So the problem is much older.

Thanks,
-Amit