Re: Round-up: Ways to bypass HttpOnly (and HTTP Basic auth)

On 3 May 2006 at 12:47, Amit Klein (AKsecurity) wrote:

> 5. Last but not least, there's a simple technique which I don't remember was 
> publicly
> discussed (though I may be wrong here - please let me know if this is well 
> known):
[...]
> You'll see the incoming cookies in HTTP_COOKIE. I'm not sure about HTTP Basic 
> Auth though 
> (I expected to see it in HTTP_AUTHORIZATION, but it seems that the servers 
> handle this 
> header and do not provide it in the ENV variables).

I just tested IIS/6.0. It provides the HTTP Authorization header in several 
environment 
variables:
- HTTP_AUTHORIZATION (as mentioned in the original posting, above)
- Part of ALL_HTTP
- Part of ALL_RAW

When the page is successfully authenticated, the credentials can also be found 
in:
- AUTH_USER (and LOGON_USER, REMOTE_USER) and AUTH_PASSWORD 


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