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Übersicht Remote Code Execution, Spotify takeover: security implications of locally hosted web services

Zemnmez and @zemnmez · Medium · 15 December 2018

The article exploits an unauthenticated local web service exposed by Übersicht so that any visited website can submit attacker-controlled widget code and achieve host command execution. It compares the flaw with Spotify's localhost integration to show why privileged local HTTP services require strong origin and request authentication.

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Researcher

Zemnmez and @zemnmez

Published by

Medium

Date

15 December 2018

In the archive

• Added to the 2018 archive after the original list was published

Tags

• localhost
• rce
• origin-validation
• desktop-app
• trust-boundary

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