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Re: [WEB SECURITY] Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth)


From: "Amit Klein (AKsecurity)" <aksecurity () hotpop com>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 19:10:16 +0200

On 3 May 2006 at 8:29, Brian Eaton wrote:


It looks like the attacks fall into three categories:

- attacks requiring XSS + TRACE.
- attacks requiring XSS + request smuggling.
- attacks requiring XSS + a test script that acts similarly to the
TRACE method, returning request values to the browser.

Am I reading that properly?


And then there are:

- attacks requiring XSS + virtual hosting on same machine with a malicious virtual site
- attacks requiring XSS + proxy server on the way


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