full-disclosure - Re: Apache/PHP REQUEST

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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:35:57 +0200
From: Vincent Archer <varcher@...yall.com>
To: عبد الله احمد عنان
	<enan2700@...il.com>
Cc: n3td3v@...glegroups.com, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Apache/PHP REQUEST_METHOD XSS Vulnerability

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 20:03 +0300, عبد الله احمد عنان wrote:
> This is a case of poor-programming, on the script coder's part, it is
> not so
> much a vunerability.

In that case, nobody's talking about vulnerabilities on this list, only
poor programming. :)

The problem in here is that the programmer "assumes" that the variables
do have a proper value checking done prior to handling off to the script
engine. HTTP_METHOD is well defined. One would assume apache has
validated the method somehow.

Unfortunately, this assumption was flawed.

> That variable only contains what it is sent by apache. it doesn't
> parse it.
> nor is it supposed to.

However, it (apache) should perform integrity checks, because it has the
capacity to do so.

> This CAN be a vulnerability with individual scripts, however, it is
> not a vuln
> with PHP or Apache.

Not with PHP. But I would agree with the original programmer that apache
is in fault here. Apache should have done the expected work, and
validated that the request was standards-compliant. It didn't, and that
opens up a huge chasm in which plenty of problems, vulnerabilities and
others, may hide.

-- 
Vincent ARCHER
varcher@...yall.com

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