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  • A AEternal

    Oh my FREAKING God.... That makes me twitch. That's such a horrible security flub.

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    Chris Maunder
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    All you've got are table names (and for the movie table only) - you can't actually get access. It's dumb and stupid but not a humungous breach

    cheers, Chris Maunder

    CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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      Sweet. SQL Injection attack anyone? :rolleyes:

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      Chris Maunder
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      How? It's server side code being rendered to the client so there's no attack vector there.

      cheers, Chris Maunder

      CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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      • C Chris Maunder

        How? It's server side code being rendered to the client so there's no attack vector there.

        cheers, Chris Maunder

        CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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        Pete OHanlon
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        Chris Maunder wrote:

        How? It's server side code being rendered to the client so there's no attack vector there.

        True - but you've now seen the name of tables, and it's obvious that Stored Procs aren't being used. As soon as you find an input form, the attack surface has been opened up.

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        • N ne0h

          Open this below link in Firefox and look at the top of the page! click[^]


          "hi, I am explorer.exe. sometimes when you are doing anything at all, I will just freeze for ten minutes. All of my brother and sister windows will also freeze, because they are sad for me. Maybe we will come back, maybe not, it will be a surprise!"

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          merrykid
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          yeah,Opera could see it but,why IE not?? :-D

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          • N ne0h

            Open this below link in Firefox and look at the top of the page! click[^]


            "hi, I am explorer.exe. sometimes when you are doing anything at all, I will just freeze for ten minutes. All of my brother and sister windows will also freeze, because they are sad for me. Maybe we will come back, maybe not, it will be a surprise!"

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            Simon Capewell
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            Rather odd. Go to index.asp and it renders correctly. Someone hasn't set the default pages up correctly in IIS up properly.

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            • P Pete OHanlon

              Chris Maunder wrote:

              How? It's server side code being rendered to the client so there's no attack vector there.

              True - but you've now seen the name of tables, and it's obvious that Stored Procs aren't being used. As soon as you find an input form, the attack surface has been opened up.

              Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

              My blog | My articles

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              Simon Capewell
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              Not as bad as one I discovered recently: Database connection strings stored in a publicly accessible txt file coupled with request strings being completely unvalidated before being appended to various SQL queries. Had a call from the client one day asking if it was us that created the 'slartibartfast' table. It turned out to be some bloke on the other side of the world having a bit of fun. Reminds me of my favourite XKCD[^].

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                Not as bad as one I discovered recently: Database connection strings stored in a publicly accessible txt file coupled with request strings being completely unvalidated before being appended to various SQL queries. Had a call from the client one day asking if it was us that created the 'slartibartfast' table. It turned out to be some bloke on the other side of the world having a bit of fun. Reminds me of my favourite XKCD[^].

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                Jason Lepack LeppyR64
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                The question is, did they know who Slartibartfast was?

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                • P Pete OHanlon

                  Sweet. SQL Injection attack anyone? :rolleyes:

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                  My blog | My articles

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                  Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                  Can people be so dumb? I would not be surprised if they put the FTP credentials of the website as a comment in the index.html under the pretext of ease of maintenance.

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                  • N ne0h

                    Open this below link in Firefox and look at the top of the page! click[^]


                    "hi, I am explorer.exe. sometimes when you are doing anything at all, I will just freeze for ten minutes. All of my brother and sister windows will also freeze, because they are sad for me. Maybe we will come back, maybe not, it will be a surprise!"

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                    Paul Conrad
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                    Bad code behind, I guess...

                    "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                    • L leppie

                      its in the HTML. Someone should really learn how to comment HTML correctly.

                      xacc.ide - now with IronScheme support
                      IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 2 out now

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                      Paul Conrad
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                      leppie wrote:

                      Someone should really learn how to comment HTML correctly.

                      Yeah, it is not that hard :rolleyes:

                      "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                      • P Pete OHanlon

                        Sweet. SQL Injection attack anyone? :rolleyes:

                        Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

                        My blog | My articles

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                        Paul Conrad
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                        Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                        SQL Injection attack anyone?

                        Totally. Think of any good ones? :rolleyes:

                        "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                        • B Brady Kelly

                          The real WTF is ADODB!

                          Pits fall into Chuck Norris.

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                          Paul Conrad
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                          Brady Kelly wrote:

                          real WTF is ADODB

                          Yep.

                          "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                          • C Chris Maunder

                            All you've got are table names (and for the movie table only) - you can't actually get access. It's dumb and stupid but not a humungous breach

                            cheers, Chris Maunder

                            CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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                            Draugnar
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                            As has already been pointed out... We now know that they use inline SQL, so the first input page you come too makes it ripe to do the injection attack with a 'drop tables' in it.

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                            • P Paul Conrad

                              Bad code behind, I guess...

                              "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                              Draugnar
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                              It's inline server tags, not code behind. And, in fact, their other pages are in classic ASP, not ASP.NET (extension is .asp, not .aspx)

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                              • P Pete OHanlon

                                Sweet. SQL Injection attack anyone? :rolleyes:

                                Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

                                My blog | My articles

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                                Draugnar
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                                Here's a URL for an intrepid deconstructionist to hack out. http://www.shringar.co.in/pressroom/newsdetails.asp?press_id={B5079EAA-06FA-4D6A-8E82-688BAE7E665E}[^]

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                                • P Paul Conrad

                                  Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                                  SQL Injection attack anyone?

                                  Totally. Think of any good ones? :rolleyes:

                                  "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer

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                                  Pete OHanlon
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                                  Paul Conrad wrote:

                                  Totally. Think of any good ones?

                                  :laugh: It does sound a bit "Capture the flag"

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                                  • N ne0h

                                    Open this below link in Firefox and look at the top of the page! click[^]


                                    "hi, I am explorer.exe. sometimes when you are doing anything at all, I will just freeze for ten minutes. All of my brother and sister windows will also freeze, because they are sad for me. Maybe we will come back, maybe not, it will be a surprise!"

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                                    Mabre of the Tadadas
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                                    This points out another coding horror/problem (whatever). It gets past IE 7. Sad but yes IE 7 lets it past while Opera and Firefox don't. The most we can hope is that IE 7 was made to ignore the problem. I seen a page where the title is in the body instead of the header so it is shown on the actual page.

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