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Mozilla Pollbot - Open Redirect

ID: pollbot-redirect

Severity: medium

Author: Evan Rubinstien

Tags: redirect,mozilla,pollbot

Mozilla Pollbot contains an open redirect vulnerability. An attacker can redirect a user to a malicious site and possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations.

id: pollbot-redirect
info:
name: Mozilla Pollbot - Open Redirect
author: Evan Rubinstien
severity: medium
description: Mozilla Pollbot contains an open redirect vulnerability. An attacker can redirect a user to a malicious site and possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized operations.
reference:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753838
- https://github.com/mozilla/PollBot
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
cvss-score: 6.1
cwe-id: CWE-601
metadata:
max-request: 1
tags: redirect,mozilla,pollbot
http:
- method: GET
path:
- '{{BaseURL}}/%0A/interact.sh/'
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: regex
part: header
regex:
- '(?m)^(?:Location\s*?:\s*?)(?:https?:\/\/|\/\/|\/\\\\|\/\\)(?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-_\.@]*)interact\.sh\/?(\/|[^.].*)?$' # https://regex101.com/r/L403F0/1
- type: status
status:
- 301
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100fc5aca947ac918c2f98d0752686002e73eacd69c042488f682135be11d202004022100c6060e4eb7788acf917f6b3eff480bc71db75d58b0ce1f1db7f64e31d8c1ddd8:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/vulnerabilities/other/pollbot-redirect.yaml"

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