After reading The Docs and The Phrack article I'm unclear on what the real problem is. (NOTE: those two links are my only experience with SOAP, so forgive me if I say something naive).

Granted, SOAP::Lite lets you run a SOAP server in which any available method can be called remotely -- but that seems to be by design. If you don't want that behavior, you can use the dispatch_to method to restrict all incoming SOAP calls to a particular Module, method, or Module Directory to protect the server from attacks attempting to call methods outside of those Modules, methods or Module Directories.

Is the issue here that even with a conservative use of dispatch_to Servers can be compromised, or that naive SOAP::Lite users might leave themselves open without realizing it?

(Or is the issue that I'm missunderstanding the docs?)

In reply to Re: Security problem in SOAP::Lite by hossman
in thread Security problem in SOAP::Lite by VSarkiss

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