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Request #38171 Validating $_SERVER tampering
Submitted: 2006-07-21 01:20 UTC Modified: 2013-02-17 12:03 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
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Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: ksharpe at kharysharpe dot com Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.1.4 OS: ALL
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-07-21 01:20 UTC] ksharpe at kharysharpe dot com
Description:
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I would like to propose a solution that will allow to test whether $_SERVER (or similar ) predefined variables have been changed since PHP initialized them.

string predefinedVarHash(string predefinedVar)

PHP at runtime, after variables have been initialized/loaded, would store the serialized hash of the predefined variable that could be later retrieved by the above function.











Reproduce code:
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e.g.

<?php

$md5Hash = predefinedVarHash("SERVER");

if ($md5Hash !== md5(serialize($_SERVER)))
   die('$_SERVER changed');
else
   echo '$_SERVER has not been changed';
?>

Expected result:
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This would allow us to validate the information stored in the variable, while still allowing us to legitimately change the value of $_SERVER or other predefind variables.


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 [2013-02-17 12:03 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix -Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: *General Issues
 [2013-02-17 12:03 UTC] nikic@php.net
This doesn't seem particularly useful to me and if you need it then it's simple enough to implement in userland PHP: Just do a $backup = $_SERVER and compare to that later. Marking as Wfx.
 
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