mozilla/pollbot · Security

open redirect in pollbot

GHSA ID
GHSA-vg27-hr3v-3cqv
CVE ID
CVE-2022-0637
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
6.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v3
6.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

(From https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753838)

Summary: There was an open redirection vulnerability in the path of:

https://pollbot.services.mozilla.com/ and https://pollbot.stage.mozaws.net/

Description: An attacker can redirect anyone to malicious sites.

Steps To Reproduce: Type in this URL:

https://pollbot.services.mozilla.com/%0a/evil.com/

It redirects to that website

evil.com

evil.com was used as an example but this could be any website. Note, the /%0a/ and trailing / are required.

Supporting Material/References: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Unvalidated_Redirects_and_Forwards_Cheat_Sheet.html

Impact

Attackers can serve malicious websites that steal passwords or download ransomware to their victims machine due to a redirect and there are a heap of other attack vectors.

CWEs

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