full-disclosure - BadBlue 302 Status Message XSS

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From: mattmurphy at kc.rr.com (Matthew Murphy)
Subject: BadBlue 302 Status Message XSS

BadBlue 1.74 (presumably earlier) is susceptible to a cross-site
scripting attack.  When BadBlue is passed a name of a non-existant
file path (or an existant folder) that does not end in a 0x2f character
("/") it returns a 302 status code containing some text:

HTTP/1.0 302 found
Location: /<SCRIPT>/

<html><body><pre>GET /<SCRIPT> HTTP/1.0

Obviously, if you pass in HTML markup, it continues on into the
reply un-filtered, resulting in a cross-site scripting attack.

This vulnerability cannot be exploited on Internet Explorer, or
any browser which ignores entities in HTTP redirect messages.

Successful exploitation may require a significant amount of
"garbage" HTML, as the entity is downloaded, displayed, and
then the redirect executed.

This vulnerability poses minimal risk, but should be taken very
seriously.

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