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Web site testing


From: "Jerry Shenk" <jshenk () decommunications com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:09:08 -0400

I've got a web site that I'm pretty sure has some holes and I've
reported the problems I've seen  but the developer doesn't seem to be
getting things fixed...seems that they need a little more evidence to
prove that there's a problem and I'm supposed to find that.  

It's a financial web site that uses session IDs that are a mix of the
user id and the seconds since midnight to the thousandth of a second
(ie. Very predictable).  The server (IIS5) will also readily give up the
current time.  A predictable session ID is a bad thing but I'm not sure
quite how to prove that.

The server is also installed on the C: drive.  If I mess up some of the
form data correctly, and submit the page, it will respond with a
directory where the file doesn't exist.  This new SSL vulnerability will
probably give a chance to prove that installing a web server on the C:
drive is a bad idea 'cuz something will eventually come up.

What are some good web server auditing tools.


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