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The Web Hacking Incidents Database
Last update:17 February 2008
List of Incidents for a Classification
Please note that classifications are a new feature and not all entries in WHID are already classified, so when you get a certain number of entries for a classification, WHID might have more records matching that classification that we did not classify yet. We hope to complete the classification process soon.
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Attack Method, Country, Location, Origin, Outcome, Software, Vertical Select criteria for classification "Attack Method":
Abuse of Functionality, Administration Error, Brute Force, Buffer Overflow, Content Spoofing, Credential/Session Prediction, Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Denial of Service, Directory Indexing, Drive by Pharming, Failure to Restrict URL Access, Format String Attack, HTTP Response Splitting, Improper Error Handling, Insecure Direct Object Reference, Insufficient Anti-automation, Insufficient Authentication, Insufficient Authorization, Insufficient Process Validation, Insufficient Session Expiration, Known Vulnerability, LDAP Injection, Misconfiguration, OS Commanding, Other, Path Traversal, Predictable Resource Location, Redirection, Session Fixation, Session Hijacking, SQL Injection, SSI Injection, Unintentional Information Disclosure, Unknown, Weak Password Recovery Validation, XPath Injection
List of incidents for which Attack Method is Predictable Resource Location
6 incidents listed
Reported: 25 October 2007Occurred: 01 November 2004
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Insufficient Authentication
- Attack Method: Predictable Resource Location
- Outcome: Disclosure Only
Following a software upgrade, Cahoot, a UK based Internet only bank allowed accessing user accounts by guessing their user names. At least on one page allowed accessing an account by only specifying the user name in the URL. The bug was open for 12 days before being discovered.
The site was taken off line for 10 hours to fix the issue. It is a significant incident, as it is one of those rare occasions where vulnerability was serious enough to force the organization to just take the site off line until it is fixed.
We somehow missed this story so it finds its way to WHID only now in late 2007.
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Reported: 24 July 2006Occurred: 30 June 2006
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Insufficient Authorization
- Attack Method: Predictable Resource Location
- Outcome: Disclosure Only
MySpace bulletins, presumably accessible only to the social network of the originator can be access by anyone by iterating through a message id query parameter.
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Reported: 26 February 2006Occurred: 13 January 2006
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Insufficient Authorization
- Attack Method: Predictable Resource Location
- Outcome: Disclosure Only
Documents uploaded to GSA site where accessed using a predictable sequential identifier without requiring special permissions. The documents where available both for viewing and modifying. The site was in service for more than 18 months until the vulnerability was discovered.
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Reported: 11 July 2005Occurred: 21 September 2002
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Insufficient Authorization
- Attack Method: Predictable Resource Location
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Reported: Occurred: 25 September 2003
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Predictable Resource Location
- Outcome: Leakage of Information
User submitted information was being stored in a publicly available location. The URL found in the source code of a publicly available web page.
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Reported: Occurred: 22 January 2001
Classifications:
- Attack Method: Predictable Resource Location
- Outcome: Disclosure Only
Sensitive files were left in a publicly accessible directory of a new web server install
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