Vulnerability Note VU#867593

This vulnerability note is against the HTTP TRACE method but mentions
the "DOM interface" (with an improper link to the W3C site by the way).

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Attackers may abuse HTTP TRACE functionality to gain access to
information in HTTP headers that is not otherwise available via the DOM
interface.
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/867593

The DOM interface does not give the ability to do an HTTP TRACE nor the
ability to access information resulting from an HTTP TRACE. The cookie
attribute (as defined in DOM Level 2 HTML) is always attached to a
Document and therefore cannot result from an HTTP TRACE.

In any case, the HTTP TRACE method itself is only returned to the client
client application who has already access to those data.

Philippe

Received on Tuesday, 25 February 2003 09:34:01 UTC