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Re: Fwd: nVidia.com [Url Redirection flaw]


From: Pete Licoln <pete.licoln () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:13:53 -0400

2009/3/25 Lorenzo Vogelsang <vogelsang.lorenzo () gmail com>

Neverthless i think that the open redirect vulnerabilty it's serious,
because "This vulnerability is used in phishing attacks to get users to
visit malicious sites without realizing it." (
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Open_redirect)

Well that's actually false, because the person who WANTS to hijack/Phish
someone who TRUST nvdia via this "flaw" need first to control this website
..Or trick a very very dummy person, it's almost the same as if you say "
wow you  can do phishing with the ADDTHIS service " only because the "from
field" can be controlled, without looking at :
The subject :  Link shared by  **spoofer**
The message body : " this spoofed_emailer recommands you to see this link
,[Message sent by spoofer () bla site via AddThis.com. Please note that the
sender's email address has not been verified.]
Cant do nothing about  that, if you're enough  silly to believe in such
credibility, an A-V software wont help you too.
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