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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS12ZzI3LWhyM3YtM2Nxds0scg

open redirect in pollbot

(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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vg27-hr3v-3cqv
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: about 2 years ago
Updated: 11 months ago

CVSS Score: 6.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-vg27-hr3v-3cqv, CVE-2022-0637
References:

• https://github.com/mozilla/PollBot/security/advisories/GHSA-vg27-hr3v-3cqv
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0637
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2022-0637
• https://github.com/mozilla/PollBot/pull/360
• https://github.com/mozilla/PollBot/commit/e39d8bec2df582ba525bb2e2f33c3ebc584d7ff8
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753838
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vg27-hr3v-3cqv

Repository: https://github.com/mozilla/PollBot
Blast Radius: 0.0

Affected Packages