Bug 44445

Summary: Reflective XSS Protection and ASP unicode messing
Product: WebKit Reporter: Giovanni Bajo <rasky>
Component: WebCore Misc.Assignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: UNCONFIRMED    
Severity: Normal CC: abarth, rasky
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: OS X 10.5   

Giovanni Bajo
Reported 2010-08-23 11:39:49 PDT
The Reflective XSS Protection currently present in Chrome/Webkit fails to handle a weird unicode "pruning" made by ASP servers (where they substitute omoglyphs). The issue is well detailed in this blog post: http://hackademix.net/2010/08/17/lost-in-translation-asps-homoxssuality/
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Adam Barth
Comment 1 2010-08-23 12:08:13 PDT
We could normalize these before comparison, but there's a long tail of complex transformations like this. It's unclear whether we're better off chasing that tail or letting these folks realize that magically substituting one character for another is a bad idea.
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