exploit the possibilities
Home Files News &[SERVICES_TAB]About Contact Add New

Google AOSP Email App HTML Injection

Google AOSP Email App HTML Injection
Posted Nov 18, 2015
Authored by Claudio Andre

Google AOSP email application versions up to 7.0 suffer from an html injection vulnerability.

tags | exploit
SHA-256 | 997b4ab75d2a1bd77ad1ed1e393d5be70361f9a6bcb2b694bbf2ee14017f4233

Google AOSP Email App HTML Injection

Change Mirror Download
https://labs.integrity.pt/articles/google-aosp-email-app-html-injection-2/
1. Vulnerability Properties

*Title: *Google AOSP Email App HTML Injection

*CVE ID: PendingCVSSv3 Base Score: *6.3
(AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
*Vendor: *Google
*Products:* AOSP Email App
*Advisory Release Date:* 16 November 2015
*Advisory URL:*
https://labs.integrity.pt/advisories/google-aosp-email-app-html-injection/
*Credits: *Discovery by Cláudio André <ca[at]integrity.pt>
2. Vulnerability Summary

A remote attacker is able to send a crafted email with a payload that
redirects the user to a target url as soon as he opens the email.
3. Technical Details

The vulnerability can be confirmed by sending a HTML email with the
following content:

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;URL=’http://www.maliciousurl.com’” />

Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to redirect a user to
a malicious website, allowing hooking the browser with malicious
JavaScript, launching phishing attacks, explore intent-based URI or browser
vulnerabilities.
4. Vulnerable Versions

- Confirmed on versions up until 7.0.

5. Solution

- Users from Android Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3) upwards, should migrate
the accounts from the AOSP Email App to the Gmail App, since the Gmail App
version 5.0+ is supported.
- Users with previous Android versions should upgrade to Ice Cream
Sandwich or above where possible or use a different email client.

6. Vulnerability timeline

- 16/6/2015 : Issue reported to Google.
- 26/6/2015 : Issue 178228 created for this vulnerability.
- 7/7/2015: Asked for feedback.
- 4/8/2015: Google replied: *After investigation we re-classified this
issue as Low severity due to the limited risk. The email app in KitKat
doesn’t execute Javascript, so the potential for exploitation is
low.**Because
it’s a low severity, we have no plans to backport the fix to KitKat per our
backport policy posted in the “Notifying Partners” section of
https://source.android.com/devices/tech/security/overview/updates-resources.html
<https://source.android.com/devices/tech/security/overview/updates-resources.html>.
The issue doesn’t apply to later versions of Android.*
- 4/8/2015: We replied that this issue was not regarding Javascript but
HTML, and that this issue has big potential for phishing attacks. (We did
not find any version where Javascript execution was possible)
- 24/8/2015: Asked for feedback.
- 22/9/2015: Asked for feedback.
- 23/10/2015: Google replied that there´s currently no plan to fix this
issue.
- 16/11/2015: Advisory released


--
Cláudio André
Security Consultant


Login or Register to add favorites

File Archive:

March 2024

  • Su
  • Mo
  • Tu
  • We
  • Th
  • Fr
  • Sa
  • 1
    Mar 1st
    16 Files
  • 2
    Mar 2nd
    0 Files
  • 3
    Mar 3rd
    0 Files
  • 4
    Mar 4th
    32 Files
  • 5
    Mar 5th
    28 Files
  • 6
    Mar 6th
    42 Files
  • 7
    Mar 7th
    17 Files
  • 8
    Mar 8th
    13 Files
  • 9
    Mar 9th
    0 Files
  • 10
    Mar 10th
    0 Files
  • 11
    Mar 11th
    15 Files
  • 12
    Mar 12th
    19 Files
  • 13
    Mar 13th
    21 Files
  • 14
    Mar 14th
    38 Files
  • 15
    Mar 15th
    15 Files
  • 16
    Mar 16th
    0 Files
  • 17
    Mar 17th
    0 Files
  • 18
    Mar 18th
    10 Files
  • 19
    Mar 19th
    32 Files
  • 20
    Mar 20th
    46 Files
  • 21
    Mar 21st
    16 Files
  • 22
    Mar 22nd
    13 Files
  • 23
    Mar 23rd
    0 Files
  • 24
    Mar 24th
    0 Files
  • 25
    Mar 25th
    12 Files
  • 26
    Mar 26th
    31 Files
  • 27
    Mar 27th
    19 Files
  • 28
    Mar 28th
    0 Files
  • 29
    Mar 29th
    0 Files
  • 30
    Mar 30th
    0 Files
  • 31
    Mar 31st
    0 Files

Top Authors In Last 30 Days

File Tags

Systems

packet storm

© 2022 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.

Services
Security Services
Hosting By
Rokasec
close