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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:29:46 -0700
From: Billy Rios <billy.rios@...il.com>
To: Chris Evans <scarybeasts@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	"bugtraq@...urityfocus.com" <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Security-Assessment.com Advisory: Oracle JRE
 - java.net.URLConnection class - Same-of-Origin (SOP) Policy Bypass

In the patch for CVE-2008-5343 (GIFAR) Sun tightened their file parsing
rules for remote JAR files, making it harder to smuggle JAR files onto the
end of other filetypes.  This makes it more difficult to create a GIF+JAR
hybrid file.  AFAIK, local JAR files were considered out of scope and will
not be subject to the additional file parsing scrutiny.

Sun/Oracle has not removed the ability to modify arbitrary HOST headers.
 So, if an attacker can upload a JAR file to a web app, they will have the
ability to jump to any domain (virtual hosted or subdomain) that exists on
the server.  The cookies sent by the applet will be from the domain provided
in the URL object, however the content returned by the server will be from
the domain specified in the HOST header.  This can cause havoc for places
where separation relies on subdomains (like wordpress.com et al.) where
users have by-design control of content on one subdomain and uses that
content to target users on a different subdomain.

Java also doesn't respect file extension, content-type, or
content-disposition returned by the web server making it a bit easier to
upload JAR files to unsuspecting web apps.

BK

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Chris Evans <scarybeasts@...il.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>wrote:
>
>> > Security-Assessment.com follows responsible disclosure
>> > and promptly contacted Oracle after discovering
>> > the issue. Oracle was contacted on August 1,
>> > 2010.
>>
>> My understanding is that Stefano Di Paola of Minded Security reported
>> this back in April; and further, the feature was a part of reasonably
>> well-documented functionality of Java pretty much ever since:
>>
>> http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html
>
>
> The Host: header trick was also used back in 2008 in Billy Rios' GIFAR
> attack -- to get around the fact that Picasa hosts images on a separate
> domain:
>
> http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2008/12/17/sun-fixes-gifars/
>
> The blog post title was "SUN Fixes GIFARs", although it's not immediately
> obvious to me what was changed or fixed.
>
> If anyone knows what was changed back then and/or in this latest release,
> it would be interesting to see it documented.
>
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
>>
>>
>> "Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be
>> resolved into the same IP addresses"
>>
>> This was a pretty horrible design, so it's good to see it gone, though.
>>
>> /mz
>>
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