RE: TRACE used to increase the dangerous of XSS.

This is not a bug in IE or XMLHTTP, and the cookie is not returned as part of the HTTP response headers. It is returned as part of the HTTP response body, which is exactly how TRACE works. Manipulating the HTTP response body returned is the last thing XMLHTTP would, or should, do.

IE is not the only browser that has XMLHTTP, Mozilla implemented a fullyworking copy with the exact same behavior. Neither remove any Set-Cookie HTTP headers from the response exposed to scripting.

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Thor Larholm
PivX Solutions, LLC - Senior Security Researcher

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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard M. Smith [mailto:rms@computerbytesman.com] Sent: 22. januar 2003 23:35
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com; webappsec@securityfocus.com; vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org
Subject: RE: TRACE used to increase the dangerous of XSS.

Isn't this a bug in Internet Explorer? Shouldn't the Microsoft XMLHTTP ActiveX control be removing cookies from returned HTTP headers when a HTTP TRACE is done? I know that this already happens when a GET or a POST is done with XMLHTTP.

Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com Received on Thu Jan 23 10:23:17 2003