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Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib

From Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib
Date 2016-06-17 23:52 -0400
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2016, at 21:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The author doesn't go into details of what sort of attacks against
> localhost they're talking about. An unauthenticated service running on
> localhost implies, to me, a single-user setup, where presumably the
> single-user has admin access to localhost. So I'm not really sure what
> "risk" they have

The issue - especially clearly in this context, which demonstrates a
working exploit for this vulnerability - is cross-site request forgery.
Which doesn't technically require the victim service to be HTTP (I
remember a proof of concept a while back which would trick a browser
into connecting to an IRC server), so long as it can ignore HTTP
headers.

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(repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-06-17 11:49 -0700
  Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-18 11:00 +1000
    Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-17 23:52 -0400
      Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-19 02:02 +1000
        Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-06-18 16:38 +0000
        Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-18 13:28 -0400
          Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-22 01:27 +1000
            Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2016-06-21 16:09 +0000
        Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-06-18 13:43 -0700
    Re: (repost) Advisory: HTTP Header Injection in Python urllib Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-18 11:35 +0300

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