bugtraq - Re: Input Validation Vulnerability in Apple Safari version 1.2.4 v125.12

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Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:49:06 +0100
From: Nicolas Gregoire <ngregoire@...probe.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Input Validation Vulnerability in Apple Safari version 1.2.4
	v125.12


Le vendredi 04 février 2005 à 06:10 -0600, Jonathan Rockway a écrit :

> https://tigger.uic.edu/htbin/perlwrap-auth/jrockw2/safari_test.pl

An other test page is located here :
http://nicob.net/cgi-bin/content-type.cgi

> The security problem is that servers serving HTML may be taking 
> measures to prevent XSS attacks; i.e. they convert < to &lt;.  These 
> servers, when serving plain text, may not do this (because it is 
> unnecessary and undesirable)

Some Oracle webapps are doing exactly that : sending content with a
text/html content-type and not bothering to escape HTML or JavaScript
tags. 

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