RE: Developerstore.com expose critical customer info

From: Blue Boar (BlueBoarat_private)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 11:51:46 PST

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    > http://developerstore.com/devstore/productSearch.asp?searchText=
    > |')%20union%20all%20select%201,name%20from%20sysobjects%20where%20
    > type='U'--
    
    You'll notice that this doesn't work any more.  I did work just fine 
    when the note was sent to vuln-dev.  I purposely held this post
    while I contacted Microsoft, and they removed the script.
    
    You're welcome to cry censorship, limited disclosure, hypocrisy, etc...
    The posts won't be let through to the list unless someone has something
    really useful to say.
    
    This is in line with my policy for the list, as stated in administrivia
    notes.  In most cases, I will not allow a post that contains info on
    how to nail a unique site.  This is not the same as a client hole,
    or a service that many people run, or a CSS problem that user
    education can fix.  No one could have (legitimately) fixed that 
    hole except the webmaster for that site.  
    
    If you have info on that site, and I allowed the post immediately, then
    you would have been screwed.  I might have info there, I really can't 
    remember.  Doesn't have anything to do with my decision, though.
    
    I post the information now, because I think that despite the fact that 
    the problem is now gone, it is important to have a track record, so
    that you can be informed about the security of a site you might
    do business with.  So, now you know, and no one but the poster, myself,
    and whoever else he told or figured it out on their own had a chance to
    exploit it.
    
    I will do this again in the future should it come up.  About the only
    time I won't hold the post is if the poster has admitted to breaking
    the law, i.e. if a site were defaced, and the attacker posts to the
    list with details of how they did it, that post is going right through.
    (Because if you give me the info, and I keep it to myself, then you've
    made me an accessory to the crime.)
    
    					BB
    



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