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Bruteforcing HTTP Auth in Firefox with JavaScript
Firefox fetches favicons and rel=prefetch targets without prompting for HTTP auth, so a page can silently probe protected resources. Esser turns that into a password oracle: a shortcut-icon link carrying user:pass@URL primes Firefox's favicon cache, then an img against the same credentialed URL fires onLoad or onError to report whether the guess was right. expose_php GUIDs supply a target.
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- Researcher
- Stefan Esser
- Published by
- blog.php-security.org
- Topic
- HTTP
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