Full Disclosure: Re: Facebook URL Redirect Vulnerability

[Andrew Farmer <andfarm () gmail com>]

On 2011-03-02, at 06:30, Nathan Power wrote:
> There are 3 different steps to perform an attack using a URL redirect:  1)
> trick the user 2) redirect 3) exploit .. We are using a Facebook URL to
> trick the user, we are using the URL redirect as the catalyst to perform an
> exploit.
>
> Here are some examples of the types of attacks you can perform with a URL
> redirect, CSRF, phishing (fake fb login), and browser exploits (javascript
> zombie,0days,etc).
>
> How would you have written the impact section?
Something like this:

> 3. Impact:
>
> An attacker may obfuscate the target of a link, potentiating phishing attacks and/or bypassing some simple URL 
> filters.
Or something of the sort. The actual target of the link isn't obscured in the URL, so it's not even particularly 
convincing if the URL is displayed in plain text.
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