On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:03:46AM +0530, Shanker Balan wrote:
> Binand Raj S. wrote,
> > Note that this one has a remotely exploitable vulnerability in it;
> > Didnt notice Raju reporting that. Here is the bugtraq advisory.
> 
> The browser sends the username/password pair to the proxy in clear
> text. It does not get easier to exploit than this! ;)

This is a remotely exploitable vulnerability. Which means that an
attacker can execute code with the privileges of the userid with
which squid is running (squid.squid on my RHL 7.2 proxy).

Binand


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