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Re: rating TRACE
From: Manolis Mavrofidis <mmavrofides () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:45:59 +0200
I'm going to be a little bit off topic. The problem with TRACE, and other low-rated vulnerabilities, expands beyond the ratings because you never know how an attacker is going to use TRACE or any other vulnerability to escalate his attack vector. On 13 November 2014 18:13, Seth Art <sethsec () gmail com> wrote:
Robin, If you are lucky, it might be a false positive. I have seen cases where OPTIONS tells you that TRACE is supported, but if you try the TRACE method, you get a 501 Not Implemented. Worth a try. Seth On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Robin Wood <robin@digi.ninja> wrote:I've always given TRACE enabled a rating of low in my reports and I know other testers who don't even bother reporting it but a client has asked for a CVSS score for it and in Googling I found that Rapid 7 rate it as a 6.0, that is high end of medium. http://www.rapid7.co.uk/db/vulnerabilities/http-trace-method-enabled Looking at the metrics they give it does appear to be a reasonable score and checking on the calculator I get a 5.8 http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator&version=2&vector=%28AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N%29 I know newer browsers can't make TRACE requests through JavaScript but there is a commeon the OWASP site about potentially using Java to make the call. In my opinion if you've got Java running on a client machine then TRACE isn't what you are likely to be thinking about. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross_Site_Tracing I'm curious what others think, do you rate TRACE as low or medium? Robin This list is sponsored by Cenzic -------------------------------------- Let Us Hack You. Before Hackers Do! It's Finally Here - The Cenzic Website HealthCheck. FREE. Request Yours Now! http://www.cenzic.com/2009HClaunch_Securityfocus --------------------------------------This list is sponsored by Cenzic -------------------------------------- Let Us Hack You. Before Hackers Do! It's Finally Here - The Cenzic Website HealthCheck. FREE. Request Yours Now! http://www.cenzic.com/2009HClaunch_Securityfocus --------------------------------------
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