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Re: http TRACE option

Subject: Re: http TRACE option
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:24:22 +0000
pentestr escribiÃ:
Hi,
what is the issue if TRACE option is enabled in web servers ? Nessus results always display it as warning.
any idea...

Cross Site Tracing, or XST. You have a great paper about it here:

http://www.cgisecurity.com/whitehat-mirror/WhitePaper_screen.pdf

Basically, the topic is about bypassing the httpOnly protection for cookies included in IE (and Firefox v3). If the programmer uses httpOnly for the cookies, they cannot be accessed via Javascript, so a tipical XSS attack would fail stealing document.cookies. However, an asyncronous XmlHTTPRequest can be done to the server with a TRACE query, and the results from the server (if activated) would be the same contents that it received (sort of an echo service for http), including the http headers that were sent with the TRACE request. Cookie information is in these headers, so now you can access to it by parsing the TRACE response.

Regards

Jose

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