- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:14:40 -0800
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Amit Klein <aksecurity@gmail.com>, Tim <tim-projects@sentinelchicken.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote: > On Feb 9, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Amit Klein wrote: >> Note that Host header verification is only effective if it can be >> guaranteed that the client side cannot forge it - see >> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445490/30/0/threaded > > I see some specific IE vulnerabilities cited here which allow the Host header to be forged via request splitting over a proxy: <http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/411585> It also cites some old Mozilla bugs that enabled header injection. And also some Flash vulnerabilities > > Do these vulnerabilities or any similar ones still exist in current versions of browsers or in Flash? Not that I'm aware of. Put another way, all the user agents that have those vulnerabilities also have known arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities, so it's not really worth worrying about. Adam
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