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IE 5.x keep-alive session hijacking
From: "Domas Mituzas" <Domas.Mituzas () microlink lt>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:17:41 +0300
Hi, sorry for being innacurate, but I noticed that our transparent-proxy system is trying (and even to succeeds at some level) to hijack client http connections. I asked users to supply us with their browser versions, and all of resulted answers were MS Internet Explorer. I didn't have too much time to investigate this issue, but here's how I imagine the problem. The transparent reverse proxy provides with Proxy-Connection: header, that can be misinterpretated by MSIE, so the browser software directs all further requests via proxy solution. It is possible to answer positively to any request, so browser continues to use proxy server transparently. Though, we've got ACLs forbidding such usage of our proxy servers, one can use such MITM attack to get cookies, input data, etc. Possibly that can be caused sometimes on other browser configurations as well. Best regards, Domas Mituzas MicroLink Data
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- IE 5.x keep-alive session hijacking Domas Mituzas (Sep 03)
- Re: IE 5.x keep-alive session hijacking 3APA3A (Sep 04)
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- Re: Fwd: IE 5.x keep-alive session hijacking Waldo Bastian (Sep 04)