Google Open to Frame Injection Attack

Posted in Google Verse, Security, Web 2.0 by wayne.porter on October 11th, 2008

Report has it that Google is vulnerable to a frame injection attack that could be used to phish login credentials from Google users.  The vulnerability can open up a vector of attack through other applications beyond Gmail. 

Any applications in Google’s roster of canonical domains: maps.google.com, images.google.com, news.google.com, mail.google.com, and google.com are potentially vulnerable. The attacker can perform the phish without needing to bypass XSS/HTML filters or even break into the a targeted Google server which makes it even more dangerous.

Frame Injection Proof of Concept Code

Aviv’s, the security researcher who disovered vuln.  blog entry:

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5 Responses to “Google Open to Frame Injection Attack”

  1. Cruiseins Says:

    interesting article though

    not really sure the whole frame injection concept though

    thanks

  2. tats18 Says:

    I am wondering why Google and other big organizations don’t work on such threats. It is really scary if someone who trust these big organizations loses his/her data. I think it would be much better if they work on vulnerabilities portion of their applications as well.

  3. Ferienwohnung Wenningstedt Says:

    My nerves are shaking after reading this. Calling the attention of the best “fighters” for this kind of “intruder”. Should be put to halt before it starts wrecking this hitech world.

  4. Ben Anderson WT Says:

    So what’s Google gonna do now?

  5. Alexander Says:

    If you want to make sure your secure try using a proxy when logging into things, besides, google would have fixed this in no time.

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