full-disclosure - MIMESweeper For Web 5.X Cross Site Scripting

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Date: Mon Jul 10 13:06:16 2006
From: eaton.lists at gmail.com (Brian Eaton)
Subject: MIMESweeper For Web 5.X Cross Site Scripting

On 7/9/06, Erez Metula <erezmetula@...ecure.co.il> wrote:
> An example attack scenario could be that an attacker will redirect many
> users (by email, posting in the organization portal, etc.) to some blocked
> URL and an accompanying script that will steal their authentication cookies.

It sounds like the net impact of this vulnerability is that an
attacker can steal cookies for a site the user isn't allowed to visit
anyway.  In other words, there aren't going to be any interesting
cookies to steal.  Is there more to this attack scenario?

Regards,
Brian