Collected research

IE Sends Local Addresses in Referer Header

ha.ckers.org web application security lab - Archive » IE Sends Local Addresses in Referer Header

An IE XML data island fetches a remote URL from a locally saved HTML file and sends the local path as the Referer, leaking the drive location and the Windows username with no JavaScript running. Credited to trev; Firefox is unaffected because it has no data islands.

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Document

ha.ckers.org web application security lab - Archive » IE Sends Local Addresses in Referer Header

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ha.ckers.org

Topic

HTTP

In the archive

• Collected in the 2007 research round

Tags

• info-leak
• http
• side-channel
• dom
• detection
• owasp-a09-2021

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