Digest authentication request splitting

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2007-2292  

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-31

Digest authentication request splitting

Announced
October 18, 2007
Reporter
Stefano Di Paola
Impact
Moderate
Products
Firefox, SeaMonkey
Fixed in
  • Firefox 2.0.0.8
  • SeaMonkey 1.1.5

Description

Security researcher Stefano Di Paola reported that Firefox did not properly validate the user ID when making an HTTP request using Digest Authentication to log into a web site. A malicious page could abuse this to inject arbitrary HTTP headers by including a newline character in the user ID followed by the injected header data. If the user were connecting through a proxy the attacker could inject headers that a proxy would interpret as two separate requests for different hosts.

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