Re: Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Kinetics Kiosk Product

[Sam Evans <wintrmte () gmail com>]

Jason,

Not that I disagree with you here, but I am not sure I understand why you 
think that connecting to a host outside the private address ranges is 
irresponsible by the company?

The connectivity from this Kiosk to the destination displayed could be one 
of:

The destination host only allows point to point connectivity, controlled by 
a firewall or that the connectivity from this Kiosk is through a VPN 
connection.

I also don't see the difference of using Internet Explorer versus any other 
browser. Script errors are script errors and will be displayed regardless 
which browser they use unless specifically disabled (as you mentioned).





On 8/18/05, Jason Coombs <jasonc () science org> wrote:
> The following script error message was noted being displayed this morning 
> on an airline check-in kiosk manufactured by Kinetics USA.
>
> Vendor: Kinetics USA
> www.kineticsUSA.com <http://www.kineticsUSA.com>
>
>
> Line: 107
> Char: 2
> Error: object expected
> Code: 0
> URL: http://151.151.10.46:64080/attract
> ?time=1124376480&TransactionID=HNL_KIOSK09-050818044716
>
> Clearly, building a product such as a publicly-accessible airline 
> passenger check-in kiosk using Internet Explorer and Windows is a very bad 
> design decision if you care at all about preventing this sort of information 
> disclosure.
>
> Even so, IE can and should be configured so as not to display such script 
> errors.
>
> Furthermore, the use of an IP address that is outside of the RFC 1918 
> private subnet address range appears very irresponsible.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jason Coombs
> jasonc () science org
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