Tickets :: Comment on [#5892] Linked attachment feature vulnerability

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Comment	> I guess that won't do the job either... cause it doesn't matter the > extension you use, the jar: protocol will interpret it as if it was a > jar file... i think that the solution begins with "hiding" the > original attachment. Another google example (this time a good one :P): > > > > http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=attd&view=att&th=1166689ac6fe384d > > > > I'm not sure, but i think that what happens in this situation, is > that an internal script is run and then you have access to the > desired attachment. But not directly. > > > > > >> Poster wrote back clarifying that this is an XSS issue > >> (http://blog.beford.org/?p=8). I'm still not sure that this is a > >> vulnerability that we can solve in IMP. > >> > >> To the poster: what is your suggested solution here? Any particular > >> site can turn off linked attachments. But any application that hosts > >> files is "vulnerable" to this. So what can an app do, aside from > >> disallowing jar files? > >
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