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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Redirection Vulnerability in Google & Facebook

3:32 PM Posted by Administrator

An open redirect is a vulnerability that exists when a script allows redirection to an external site by directly calling a specific URL in an unfiltered,unmanaged fashion, which could be used to redirect victims to unintended,malicious web sites. A web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a Redirect.

A similar vulnerability is founded in Google by "Ucha Gobejishvili ( longrifle0x )". This problem may assist an attacker to conduct phishing attacks, trojan distribution, spammers.
Url: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?redirect_uri=http://www.something.com

Same vulnerability in Facebook, Discovered by ZeRtOx from Devitel group:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?h=5AQH8ROsPAQEOTSTw7sgoW1LhviRUBr6iFCcj4C8YmUcC8A&u=www.something.com

What One Can Do:

A remote attacker can redirect users from your website to a specified URL. This problem may assist an attacker to conduct phishing attacks, trojan distribution, spammers.