Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 19 99

Foil 36 Web Exposures

From Computer Crimes: Examples of Network Security attacks Tango Group Internal Technology Seminars -- April 23 99. by Roman Markowski
When PHF script exist
Most Web applications are never tested for penetration vulnerabilities (input handling issues)
  • cgi script may be able to use files outside of server area
  • unexpected arguments
Web servers have well-known bugs: in most cases requires ability to find, read and recreate exploits
various exploits described at
Most popular: replace web pages with new ones; put additional contents

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