-1 for while(true). Let's consider all use cases

1) JS templates are used with AJAX, thus the X-Requested_with header is 
sent and .xhr? is enough protection
2) JS templates are also used with inline <script> tags. Thus while(true) 
will both break on origin website and on attacker's website. Not an option
3) Since we can send additional header why bother with prepending 
while(true);
So .xhr? is most elegant way that covers most of attack vectors. 
I really don't understand why JSON-hijacking wasn't solved the same way. 
while(true) is uglyish

On Monday, December 2, 2013 10:24:30 PM UTC+7, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas 
wrote:
>
> I believe the reason why it's hard for us to understand how the exploit 
> works is because it's pretty hard to find the documentation for RJS 
> itself and specially how it works... 
>
> I'm assuming, it works like JSONP, since Egor must know what he is 
> talking about. 
>
> In this case, it won't require a XHR request and won't send any nonce 
> (like the XSRF token) for GET requests, and will work with a regular 
> inline script tag. 
>
> In that case, the trick of prepending a "while(1)" would probably fix 
> this particular issue because it wouldn't allow the code to be 
> evaluated, no matter whether you have changed the JS global context or 
> not. 
>
> Another way of fixing it if I understood correctly would be to require 
> all RJS requests to happen with XHR since they are subject to 
> same-origin browser's policy. 
>
> Yet another way to fix it would be to always require a nonce even for 
> GET requests to XHR templates requests. 
>
> Am I missing something? 
>
> Best, 
> Rodrigo. 
>
> Em 02-12-2013 12:57, Greg Molnar escreveu: 
> > I think we should rather try to find a way to make this secure. What 
> > would be a sane default? Only respond to js format is the request is 
> xhr? 
> > To be honest I read Egor's post but still not sure how this exploit 
> > would work. I will look at his examples when I got some free time and 
> > hopefully that will help to understand it more. 
>
>

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