full-disclosure - Re: Netvolution referer header SQL injection vulnerability

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Message-ID: <4E8A4580.4020500@census.gr>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:30:08 +0300
From: Dimitris Glynos <dimitris@...sus.gr>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Netvolution referer header SQL
	injection	vulnerability

On 10/03/2011 01:47 PM, Dimitris Glynos wrote:
> As header field values are normally not included in HTTP transaction
> logs, an attack based on this vulnerability may go unnoticed by web
> server administrators.

A correction:

Although most header fields are not normally included in HTTP
transaction logs, the referer one usually is. Hence the above
argument holds true only for web servers with minimal logging
setups (e.g. IIS 6.0 using IIS Log File Format).

Cheers,

Dimitris

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