Re: [Full-disclosure] Firefox bookmark cross-domain surfing vulnerability

["pdp (architect)" <pdp.gnucitizen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

well placed splog network can reach millions of users in a couple of hours.

On 2/22/07, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, pdp (architect) wrote:
>
> > This vulnerability is cute but not very useful mainly because a lot of
> > social engineering is required.
>
> Well, very little trickery is required - having a person bookmark an
> interesting page and then reopen it later on, while the browser is still
> on its start page (or just about any other high-profile site), isn't that
> unusual, and does not rely on an improbable set of circumstances, or the
> user being particularly timid.
>
> This problem is not that significant for a different reason - to affect a
> small percentage of population, you'd need to invest some serious effort
> into providing content and PR for the attack site. Spending several days
> to steal GMail cookies from 1000 users is a waste of time when you can get
> 10000 rooted boxes in hours with a trojan horse e-mail.
>
> So, yeah.
>
> /mz
>


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