full-disclosure - Re: nVidia.com [Url Redirection flaw]

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Message-ID: <13227.1237996827@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:00:27 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Lorenzo Vogelsang <vogelsang.lorenzo@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: nVidia.com [Url Redirection flaw]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:21:42 BST, Lorenzo Vogelsang said:
> Despite i've told to nvidia only the "url redirection"  flaw i think
> that, if "url redirection" will be solved all the xss inherently
> vulnerabilites will be solved too.

Actual experience in the field has shown that in general, if you report a URL
redirection issue to the maintainers of a website, a large percentage of the
time they will *only* fix the problem with URL redirection, unless you make it
clear to them *and they understand* that the URL redirection is only one
symptom of a larger XSS issue.

I'll give it a 50-50 chance that somebody will get to send NVidia an email
saying "Good, you fixed the URL problem.  Now about that XSS...."

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