A locked door is useless if you leave the windows open.

Russ Michaels
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On 28 Mar 2014 19:09, "Dave Watts" <dwa...@figleaf.com> wrote:

>
> > I also once had a client who did this, they were Linux heads who thought
> > that hiding the "sucky insecure windows/cf server" behind a linux server
> > and doing a reverse proxy would make it secure.
>
> There is no such thing as "make it secure", of course. But it is more
> secure. It solves one specific security problem - preventing
> executable code from being directly accessed from an untrusted
> network.
>
> > But of course it didn't as everything still works the same way, the SQL
> > injections still got through, the insecure file upload forms still
> allowed
> > files to be uploaded, which could then be executed as they had cfexecute
> > and cfregistry enabled.
>
> So what you're saying is that, despite the fact that the environment
> was (more) secure by default, developers accidentally wrote
> exploitable code?
>
> I have the feeling there's some lesson to be drawn from this. I wonder
> what it is?
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> 1-202-527-9569
> http://www.figleaf.com/
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>
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