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Re: [WEB SECURITY] Unicode Left/Right Pointing Double Angel Quotation Mark bypass?


From: Thierry Zoller <Thierry () Zoller lu>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:42:35 +0200

Hi,

AJE> We have seen 44 sites in the last year at WhiteHat Security that were
AJE> vulnerable to Fullwidth unicode-encoded attacks. This one tends to be
AJE> more ubiquitous than others when you find it. In the applications weak
AJE> to this -- we found roughly 200 locations vulnerable to attack in
AJE> those 44 applications, and each location would have multiple inputs,
AJE> so you are probably talking 1,000+ inputs vulnerable to attack using
AJE> this encoding.

The   discussion   of   how  many  inputs  are  vulnerable  is kind of
ludicrous isn't it? As it nearly always boils down to the same set of impacts
even if you have a trillion of inputs vulnerable, per domain.

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