4442 : NFR Non-Standard Encoding HTTP Attack Evasion
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6 months ago

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Disclosure

Sep 05, 2001

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Sep 05, 2001

Solution

Unknown

Description

Network Flight Recorder contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to craft HTTP-based attacks that evade detection. The issue is triggered when %u encoding is used to obfuscate HTTP URLs used in attacks. It is possible that the flaw may allow HTTP-based attacks to not be detected by the IDS.

Classification

Location: Remote/Network Access Required
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Available
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Technical

IIS supports %u encoding in order to encode Unicode characters in HTTP URLs. The format is %u followed by four hexadecimal digits. The four hexadecimal digits represent the Unicode character being encoded. For example, %u0061 would represent the Unicode character 'a'.

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades, patches, or workarounds available to correct this issue.

Products

NFR Security
Watch-list
Network Flight Recorder
Watch-list
Unknown or Unspecified

References

Manual Testing Notes

Credit

  • Marc Maiffret - marcBrand New Doo Dooeeye.com - eEye Digital Security
  • HSJ -

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