URL will change which would make it obvious.
Then again some will buy into it so yeah...
I am kind of on a fence with this one. You did sway my opinion though;
hence on the fence. I used to be on the other side :)
Don't think Google can do much about though and keep same functionality.
Serg
On 17/11/05, Aman Raheja <araheja@techquotes.com> wrote:
Why would it not be a problem if someone sends an email with the link
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.xyz.com and prompt user to sign
up for some new google service or even sign in to personalize the google
homepage?
The user will get redirected to the xyz site which would show google
logo and same look and feel and collect the user information - which
could potentially be misused. They are probably not going away the
credit card or bank information but it is phishing and collecting user
information by misleading.
AR
Serg B. wrote:
I really dont see a problem here?
Vulnerability? What are you on about? Simple, expected redirect (key
word: expected).
Here is a more in context example.
Lets say you have some sort of managment system (lets say a CRM of some
sort) and you search for user with name 'A'. Returned result set
contains 20 matches. You are presented with a list and you choose which
one you want to look at in details. However if result set returned is a
single, exact match then there is absolutely no point showing a list of
matches since we already know that there is only a single match. Hence,
go directly to data, saving time and effort.
Serg
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 13:51 +0000, Aman Raheja wrote:
This is not XSS but indeed a vulnerability since they are not validating
the URL and it's irresponsible of google not to take care of this kind of
vulnerability which would aid phishing.
Aman Raheja
http://www.techquotes.com
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:52:19 +0800, Andrew Chan <quickt@gmail.com> wrote :
I tried http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.microsoft.com and it got
directed. it seems that I received one such phishing email that makes
use of this to obfuscate the actual URL lately.
