Collected research

Hijacking Safari 4 Top Sites with Phish Bombs

Inferno · securethoughts.com

CVE-2009-2196: a page could script a hidden, blurred window to visit chosen sites repeatedly until Safari 4's Top Sites panel replaced the victim's real thumbnails with attacker pages. Combined with the CSS history hack to pick which banks to imitate, it gives persistent phishing that survives the browsing session. Fixed in Safari 4.0.3.

Record

Researcher

Inferno

Published by

securethoughts.com

Topic

Browser

In the archive

• Collected in the 2009 research round

Tags

• cve
• javascript
• info-leak
• side-channel
• case-study
• vendor-advisory
• phishing
• owasp-a04-2021

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