Archive for ‘Theory’

The reincarnation of the RFI

Hey! Remember the good old days when the web spouted RFI’s everywhere? We miss those days. So me and Fredrik figured out a new way to reincarnate the old dusty RFI’s! This is an unexpected feature in PHP that allows you to communicate with external servers even though allow_url_include = Off.

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Barcode Attacks In Action

Well well, this time I’ve moved along from the theoretical area into the more practical one. So, okay, if you didn’t know already, I live in Sweden. In Sweden there is this very huge company called ICA, and they’re basically a nation wide supermarket company.

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MySQL Out-Of-Band (OOB)

Both me and my fellow researcher Mathias have heard all from “It’s impossible to make DNS requests in MySQL” to “There is no out-of-band techniques for MySQL”. So we both thought “Hey, it can’t be that hard…” So ladies and gentlemen, here’s a (so far) theory on a MySQL out-of-band request. As long as you have the File_priv set to Y in MySQL it is a possible scenario. So let’s…

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