Re: [Pki-devel] [PATCH] 0055 Allow encoded slashes in HTTP paths

On 11/4/2015 11:22 PM, Fraser Tweedale wrote: Some comments: 1. The ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH parameter will fix the problem, but there's a security concern: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/security-howto.html The org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.ALLOW_BACKSLASH and org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.UDecoder.ALLOW_ENCODED_SLASH system properties allow non-standard parsing of the request URI. Using these options when behind a reverse proxy may enable an attacker to bypass any security constraints enforced by the proxy. However, since we are not dependent on a proxy to protect PKI pages in Tomcat (we have our own ACL in PKI) I suppose this is not an issue, unless anybody else has a concern. 2. I think the catalina.properties that needs to be modified is in base/server/share/conf. The others are duplicates that should've been removed. 3. During deployment the catalina.properties is copied into <instance dir>/conf. So if we want to fix existing instances we need to write an upgrade script. -- Endi S. Dewata