Re: XSS in viewstate

[Raw Data <rawdataz () gmail com>]

Hi Dave,

This problem has been hinted by MS since the release of .Net2.0, even
my team was able to reproduce this a while ago, so I was a bit
surprise when this advisory was released, as I thought this was
already known.

> From my point of view the problem here is not the tampering of
non-encrypted/signed Viewstate. The problem lies with applications
that are load-balanced and using signed/encrypted Viewstate.

When Viewstate is used on a single machine, the encryption key/signing
MAC is managed internally and auto-generated. However, when it's being
used on a web farm environment this key has to be shared between all
servers, so it has to be set manually, and here lies the problem. Will
everybody instruct their operations teams to change this on, let's
say, a weekly basis?

Worse even, now that Viewstate is on the spotlight, it's fairly easy
to imagine that someone will write a tool to brute-force it or devise
some easier way to break it. Remember that the MachineKey which is
used to encrypt/sign the Viewstate has other functions besides this
one (Forms authentication tickets and role cookies).

Solutions?

Cheers,

RD


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:45 PM, dave <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:
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> http://www.hacking-lab.com/misc/downloads/ViewState_Afames.pdf
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> This, on first glance, looks real to me. Does anyone have any comments
> on it? ViewState is pretty complex and fairly opaque. If I understand
> properly, MS does not publish the full specs to it? Maybe the Mono team
> found them somewhere?
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> - -dave
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