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This looks like a good read: http://www.adambarth.com/papers/2009/barth-weinberger-song.pdf http://www.adambarth.com/papers/2009/barth-weinberger-song.p... Cro
by marshray 14y ago
This looks like a good read:
http://www.adambarth.com/papers/2009/barth-weinberger-song.pdf http://www.adambarth.com/papers/2009/barth-weinberger-song.p... Cross-Origin JavaScript Capability Leaks: Detection, Exploitation, and Defense
Although these vulnerabilities are imple-
mentation errors in WebKit, the presence of the
bugs illustrates the fragility of the general architec-
ture. (Other browsers have historically had similar
vulnerabilities [17, 18, 19].) We detail these vulner-
abilities and construct proof-of-concept exploits to
demonstrate how an attacker can leverage a leaked
JavaScript pointer to inject a malicious script into
an honest security origin.
- dmix 14y agoThanks I'll check it out, but I thought that tptacek was talking about manipulation of JS runtimes instead of exploitations of XSS bugs in webkit.
- marshray 14y agoThat's the thing about Javascript. The tiniest little XSS or subtle origin violation results in the entire browser app being 100% 'pwned' (to use the technical term). The pwnage can even persist into the future for that user when you consider the ability of browsers to cache content and HTML5's data store.