Loading docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 +9 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1237,6 +1237,15 @@ are used to generate structured data. Characters like embedded carriage returns or ampersands could allow the user to create additional headers or fields that could cause malicious transactions. .IP "Server-supplied Names" A server can supply data which the application may, in some cases, use as a file name. The curl command-line tool does this with --remote-header-name, using the Content-disposition: header to generate a file name. An application could also use CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL to generate a file name from a server-supplied redirect URL. Special care must be taken to sanitize such names to avoid the possibility of a malicious server supplying one like "/etc/passwd", "\autoexec.bat" or even ".bashrc". .IP "Server Certificates" A secure application should never use the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option to disable certificate validation. There are numerous attacks that are enabled Loading Loading
docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 +9 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1237,6 +1237,15 @@ are used to generate structured data. Characters like embedded carriage returns or ampersands could allow the user to create additional headers or fields that could cause malicious transactions. .IP "Server-supplied Names" A server can supply data which the application may, in some cases, use as a file name. The curl command-line tool does this with --remote-header-name, using the Content-disposition: header to generate a file name. An application could also use CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL to generate a file name from a server-supplied redirect URL. Special care must be taken to sanitize such names to avoid the possibility of a malicious server supplying one like "/etc/passwd", "\autoexec.bat" or even ".bashrc". .IP "Server Certificates" A secure application should never use the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option to disable certificate validation. There are numerous attacks that are enabled Loading