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<p>About security for <span class="weinre">weinre</span>: <b>there is none</b>.

<p>Obviously there should be some.  The question is, what do we need to do?

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<h2>Background and potential exposures</h2>

<p>Currently <span class="weinre">weinre</span> uses plain old HTTP - not HTTPS - and provides
no level of authentication for requests.

<p>The primary security exposure with <span class="weinre">weinre</span> is via
the debug server.

<p>Currently, the server only reads files from the <tt>weinre.jar</tt> file,
and from the <tt>~/.weinre/</tt> directory (for property files).
The only thing the server writes to is <tt>stdout</tt> and <tt>stderr</tt>.

<p>If you use the default <tt>--boundHost</tt> option value of
<tt>localhost</tt>, then any software on the machine running the debug
server can communicate with the debug server.  This probably isn't a big
deal, since presumably you control the software running on that machine.

<p>If you use a non-default <tt>--boundHost</tt> option value,
then <b>any software on any machine that can access that specified
host can communicate with the debug server</b>.  This is a much bigger
deal.

<p>The most obvious exposure with using <tt>--boundHost</tt> and
a specific hostname / ip address, is that any debug client or
debug target that can access that hostname / ip address can access
the server.  For example, a rogue debug client could connect to
your debug target and fiddle about with it.

<p>Other exposures include leaving a debug target injection
script line (ie, <tt>&lt;script src="[...]/target/target-script.js"&gt;</tt>)
in your web page, and then that web page connects to a rogue debug
server running at that address.

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<h2>Future Implementation Ideas</h2>

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<li>Let's chat

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