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Re: RSINC web mini-bug ?? [message #48060] Tue, 21 March 2006 09:03
Antonio Santiago is currently offline  Antonio Santiago
Messages: 201
Registered: February 2004
Senior Member
Jean H. wrote:
> It is called a session.
>

I think the ugly thing isn't the session but the GET method instead the
POST one.
See ID's and that kind of information in the URL is a bad idea, although
they aren't too many dangerous, because can give some bad ideas to the
bad boys.

> change the value after wid= and the name will disapear... if you have
> time to loose, you might even find somebody else name!
>
> webservers delete the sessions, on the server side, every now and then..
> when people don't put the session ID in a link, it is not a problem as
> each new user (visitor) will receive a new session ID.
>
> Your online bank account works the same.... fear it! :)
>
> Jean H.
>
> Antonio Santiago wrote:
>
>> Hi group,
>>
>> trying to find some information on the net about iTools I found this
>> beautifull link:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=h ttp%3A//www.rsinc.com/services/techtip.asp%3Fttid%3D3528%26w id%3D2861072%26s%3D1497&ei=BHoaRI7ZPI7iiALs5fnXAw&si g2=ofQoPF4gqPb9_SDkfVlNYA
>>
>>
>> Why is it interesting??
>> I suppose because you are semi-login as:
>>
>>>> Hello Andrzej Pindor
>>
>> My name is not Andrzej Pindor, but can be logged as him for a moments.
>> I suposse it is not a serious bug, because a bad boy needs to be the
>> cookies of Andrzej with some kind of information to login as him 100%.
>>
>> Bye.
>>


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Re: RSINC web mini-bug ?? [message #48074 is a reply to message #48060] Mon, 20 March 2006 12:11 Go to previous message
Jean[1] is currently offline  Jean[1]
Messages: 8
Registered: November 2005
Junior Member
It is called a session.

change the value after wid= and the name will disapear... if you have
time to loose, you might even find somebody else name!

webservers delete the sessions, on the server side, every now and then..
when people don't put the session ID in a link, it is not a problem as
each new user (visitor) will receive a new session ID.

Your online bank account works the same.... fear it! :)

Jean H.

Antonio Santiago wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> trying to find some information on the net about iTools I found this
> beautifull link:
>
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=h ttp%3A//www.rsinc.com/services/techtip.asp%3Fttid%3D3528%26w id%3D2861072%26s%3D1497&ei=BHoaRI7ZPI7iiALs5fnXAw&si g2=ofQoPF4gqPb9_SDkfVlNYA
>
>
> Why is it interesting??
> I suppose because you are semi-login as:
>
>>> Hello Andrzej Pindor
>
> My name is not Andrzej Pindor, but can be logged as him for a moments. I
> suposse it is not a serious bug, because a bad boy needs to be the
> cookies of Andrzej with some kind of information to login as him 100%.
>
> Bye.
>
Re: RSINC web mini-bug ?? [message #48078 is a reply to message #48074] Mon, 20 March 2006 12:01 Go to previous message
Michael Wallace is currently offline  Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003
Senior Member
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=h ttp%3A//www.rsinc.com/services/techtip.asp%3Fttid%3D3528%26w id%3D2861072%26s%3D1497&ei=BHoaRI7ZPI7iiALs5fnXAw&si g2=ofQoPF4gqPb9_SDkfVlNYA
>
>
> Why is it interesting??
> I suppose because you are semi-login as:
>
>>> Hello Andrzej Pindor
>
> My name is not Andrzej Pindor, but can be logged as him for a moments. I
> suposse it is not a serious bug, because a bad boy needs to be the
> cookies of Andrzej with some kind of information to login as him 100%.


The name being shown is directly related to the wid number in the URL.
If you change the value of wid, you'll either get a different name or
the standard request to sign in. I don't understand why RSI has that
field in the URL (rather than only keeping it in a user's session), but
it appears to only affect the displayed name; you're not actually logged
in as that person. However, it is something that should be cleaned up
in my opinion.

-Mike
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