From: jas1@hotmail.com
Date: Tue Dec 12 2006 - 06:18:39 EST
I am currently testing a proprietary (supposedly) secure web based application. The application was built around users with IE6.0 and above, one of the instances of this is that the URL is hidden from the end user when browsing the application. Of course you can ctrl-N or save the page locally to gain the URL, but most end users would not be looking for the URL. I advised a while back that the application should not be passing sensitive info via the URL in the first place. On a recent test I thought I would use IE7 and found that 'for security' reasons the URL is always displayed, greyed out. The issue here is that some internal/external proprietary applications will now display sensitive info via the URL that could cause 'serious' information disclosure - apart from relaying to the vendor to code their apps more securely, does anyone have any more suggestions please?
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