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Severe XSS in Google and Others due to the JAR protocol issues

Severe XSS in Google and Others Due To The JAR Protocol Issues

pdp · gnucitizen.org

Following the jar: origin disclosure, beford showed Google's many open redirects can point a jar: URL at an attacker-hosted archive while keeping google.com as the origin, giving domain-wide XSS across Google services. pdp names the class Web-wide Cross-site Scripting: any site with an open redirect and a Firefox user is exposed until Mozilla patches.

Record

Document

Severe XSS in Google and Others Due To The JAR Protocol Issues

Researcher

pdp

Published by

gnucitizen.org

Topic

XSS

In the archive

• Collected in the 2007 research round

Tags

• xss
• open-redirect
• sop-bypass
• same-origin-policy
• java
• url-parsing
• case-study
• attack-chain
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a03-2021
• owasp-a04-2021

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