RE: TRACE used to increase the dangerous of XSS.

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 14:34, Richard M. Smith wrote:
> Isn't this a bug in Internet Explorer?

you might correct...and then it might both NS and IE. Although...if we call it a browser bug and fix it there...

we are relying on client-side security to ensure the integrity of the cookies on the target domain. Much easier for a web server admin to simply deny trace.

At least that was our take after talking to everyone we could.

In the end...we outline several points of weakness in the paper to which we recommend solutions.

Shouldn't the Microsoft XMLHTTP
> ActiveX control be removing cookies from returned HTTP headers when a

Thats really not my call on if that SHOULD be done or not. Or maybe it would break some functionality. It would certainly help.

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I know that this already happens when a GET or a
> POST is done with XMLHTTP.

Really?... I must test.

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> Richard M. Smith
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Received on Wed Jan 22 19:58:18 2003