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I’m wondering how this can be exploited.
by tonyedgecombe 7mo ago
I’m wondering how this can be exploited.
- delecti 7mo agoAgreed, at worst this is just vaguely icky feeling; realistically this is a nothing burger. To exploit this kind of thing you'd either need to have access to someone's computer to change the hosts file yourself, pointing to a different IP address, or somehow gain control of Adobe's IP address and point it to a different server. For the former, if you have local root permission, you already own the machine, why bother with this slow of an option. And the latter is already such a takeover that the involvement of this hosts file change is basically irrelevant.
- the_mitsuhiko 7mo agoThey implemented it in a way that it only responds with a valid image and a 200 status code, when the referrer is adobe.com. It's probably somewhat sane given the insanity that is the host files hack.