RE: [WEB SECURITY] Re: Minimal User Interaction with Links

["Vance, Michael" <Michael.Vance () salliemae com>]

I'm wondering if this CA is supposed to be for internal use only and a cert was accidentally issued by it for an 
external web site.  IE gives cert errors if you actually try to visit the site.  The issuing CA (DOD CA-14) isn't in 
any trusted signer store that I've found yet.

-Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Schmidt, Chris [mailto:cschmidt () servicemagic com] 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:56 AM
To: 51l3n73y3s; Steven M. Christey; micheal.espinola () gmail com
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com; websecurity () webappsec org
Subject: RE: [WEB SECURITY] Re: Minimal User Interaction with Links

It appears to be speedbumping every time I hit that site in Chrome. 

Looking in FF 3.0 it also has an issue.

The CA for the Cert is DOD CA-14 - which one would think would be a
trusted CA if it is legit (which it appears to be).

Perhaps, this is legitimately no longer a trusted CA? Who knows, but, to
the point, browsers should absolutely be warning you if you visit a site
which has a non-trusted certificate. This is the only protection you
have against well orchestrated MiTM attacks.



-----Original Message-----
From: 51l3n73y3s [mailto:51l3n7 () live in] 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:23 AM
To: Schmidt, Chris; Steven M. Christey; micheal.espinola () gmail com
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com; websecurity () webappsec org
Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] Re: Minimal User Interaction with Links

The strange thing is that it stops happening at times and then recurs
again 
on the same machine, same browser(FF) with the same configuration, same 
machine. Is this behavior noticed with chrome too?

Regards, Sandeep
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From: "Schmidt, Chris" <cschmidt () servicemagic com>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 7:24 PM
To: "51l3n73y3s" <51l3n7 () live in>; "Steven M. Christey" 
<coley () linus mitre org>; <micheal.espinola () gmail com>
Cc: <security-basics () securityfocus com>; <websecurity () webappsec org>
Subject: RE: [WEB SECURITY] Re: Minimal User Interaction with Links

> FWIW
>
> Chrome also says it is an invalid cert...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 51l3n73y3s [mailto:51l3n7 () live in]
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 5:36 PM
> To: Steven M. Christey; micheal.espinola () gmail com
> Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com; websecurity () webappsec org
> Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] Re: Minimal User Interaction with Links
>
> Steve,
>
> I agree completely with you.
>
> This link
http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&q=limited+users+test&btnG=Google+Search&m
> eta=&aq=f&fp=2cf627ce33d082a9
> will not give a certificate problem with IE, but with Mozilla Firefox
> 3.5.2
> it throws an invalid certificate for the first website in the results
> page.
> Someone trying to fake a military website, Probably? That is off
thread,
> if
> someone wants to report that. It shouldn't throw the certificate
warning
> at
> all. All I did was to search in Google for "limited users test"
(without
> quotes) and coincidentally  it came up as the first result. Perhaps
it's
> still the first. A bug's been filed at
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510448 cause I think this
> is
> not normal. It doesn't happen with 3.0, It doesn't happen with IE
> 6.0.2900
> that I have. The browser is not handling this properly. It should keep
> that
> to itself(Block it) even if it's checking each link for validity,
though
> I
> don't see a reason why it should even do that.
>
> -Sandeep Cheema
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:41 AM
> To: <micheal.espinola () gmail com>
> Cc: "51l3n73y3s" <51l3n7 () live in>;
<security-basics () securityfocus com>;
> <websecurity () webappsec org>
> Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] Re: Minimal User Interaction with Links
>
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Micheal Espinola Jr wrote:
> >
> > > Under normal circumstances, no, it is not possible in this day and
> age
> > > (i.e with an up-to-date OS) to automatically execute/save a file by
> > > clicking a link.
> >
> > It's possible to do this automatically, without any user interaction,
> by
> > referencing vulnerable ActiveX controls with insecure exposed methods
> with
> > names like DownloadAndExecuteFile() (see CVE-2008-4586 for example).
> >
> > These types of issues are starting to show up fairly regularly in
CVE.
> > Very few researchers seem to be paying attention to Firefox plug-ins,
> but
> > once they do, I expect to see similar results there, too.
> >
> > Theoretically it's within the browsers' security models to avoid the
> > automatic save/execute of files, but browser bugs and the
> aforementioned
> > plugin vulnerabilities mean that practically speaking, it's still
> > possible.  I assume the more knowledgeable Flash experts among us
have
> > their own suggestions.
> >
> > - Steve
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