[ Bit late, way behind on mail ]
The standard thing I've seen done, particularly on .gov's is to have a
"redirection message" that says "You are now being redirected to .....
Please note that this site is not affiliated with xyz. You will be
redirected in 3 seconds".
Seems that would fix the issue of people confusing the final site as
being google. I don't consider this a vuln either, and not even much of
a phishing 'enabler'. Google doesn't frame the site, they 302 to it.
You can only hold hands for so long ... at some point people have to
realize the url has completely changed and they're not on google
-----Original Message-----
From: Serg Belokamen [mailto:serg.belokamen@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:32 PM
To: Aman Raheja
Cc: webappsec@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: XSS?
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.
