RE: Pen-tester's analysis of .NET security?

From: Frank Knobbe (frank@knobbe.us)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 16:54:26 EST


On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 02:29, Dominick Baier wrote:
> however there is a bug in asp.net 1.1 with null characters :
>
> won't work
> http://foo.bar/search.aspx?term=>alert('Vulnerable')</SCRIPT>
>
> will work
>
http://foo.bar/search.aspx?term=<%00SCRIPT>alert('Vulnerable')</SCRIPT>

What did I say earlier about not trusting the OS? Perfect example here.
You can't trust anybody but your own code :)

Any idea why Microsoft is filtering for "<SCRIPT>" specifically and not
just "<" and ">"?

Regards,
Frank





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