d.xp1.ru4.com, XSS, Cross Site Scripting, Embedding Script (XSS ) in HTTP Headers

CWE-113: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Response Splitting')

Report generated by CloudScan Vulnerability Crawler at Fri Feb 11 11:57:44 CST 2011.

DORK CWE-79 XSS Report

Summary

Severity:	High
Confidence:	Certain
Host:	http://d.xp1.ru4.com
Path:	/activity

Issue detail

The value of the redirect request parameter is copied into the Location response header. The payload d1289%0d%0a0d2c7947301 was submitted in the redirect parameter. This caused a response containing an injected HTTP header.

Issue background

HTTP header injection vulnerabilities arise when user-supplied data is copied into a response header in an unsafe way. If an attacker can inject newline characters into the header, then they can inject new HTTP headers and also, by injecting an empty line, break out of the headers into the message body and write arbitrary content into the application's response.

Various kinds of attack can be delivered via HTTP header injection vulnerabilities. Any attack that can be delivered via cross-site scripting can usually be delivered via header injection, because the attacker can construct a request which causes arbitrary JavaScript to appear within the response body. Further, it is sometimes possible to leverage header injection vulnerabilities to poison the cache of any proxy server via which users access the application. Here, an attacker sends a crafted request which results in a "split" response containing arbitrary content. If the proxy server can be manipulated to associate the injected response with another URL used within the application, then the attacker can perform a "stored" attack against this URL which will compromise other users who request that URL in future.

Issue remediation

If possible, applications should avoid copying user-controllable data into HTTP response headers. If this is unavoidable, then the data should be strictly validated to prevent header injection attacks. In most situations, it will be appropriate to allow only short alphanumeric strings to be copied into headers, and any other input should be rejected. At a minimum, input containing any characters with ASCII codes less than 0x20 should be rejected.

Request

GET /activity?_o=62795&_t=cm_admeld&redirect=d1289%0d%0a0d2c7947301&admeld_user_id=6acccca4-d0e4-464e-a824-f67cb28d5556&admeld_adprovider_id=303&admeld_call_type=redirect&admeld_callback=http://tag.admeld.com/match HTTP/1.1
Host: d.xp1.ru4.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: X1ID=CA-00000000456885722; O179638=0; C1780853=0@4; M62795-97957=1

Response

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7.0
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:38:39 GMT
P3p: policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="NON DSP COR PSAa OUR STP UNI"
Pragma: no-cache
Set-cookie: O62795=0; domain=.ru4.com; path=/; expires=Mon, 01-Jan-1970 12:00:00 GMT
Location: http://d1289
0d2c7947301?admeld_user_id=6acccca4-d0e4-464e-a824-f67cb28d5556&admeld_adprovider_id=303&admeld_call_type=redirect&admeld_callback=http://tag.admeld.com/match
Content-length: 0
Connection: close

Report generated by CloudScan Vulnerability Crawler at Fri Feb 11 11:57:44 CST 2011.