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From: Digital Shadow (dshadowwhoever.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 11:15:33 CST

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    Mail.com Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
    Ministry-of-Peace - www.ministryofpeace.co.uk
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    SYNOPSIS

    Mail.com offers free webmail services, which are used
    by tens of thousands of people around the world.
    The site suffers from a CSS vulnerability, giving a
    malicious user the ability to view the site cookies of
    any user currently logged in.
     

    IMPACT

    If a malicious user can get the mail.com user to follow
    a simple link, then they can grab that users mail.com
    cookies and possibly use them to authenticate as that
    user.

    WORKING EXAMPLE

    Log into your mail.com account, and then go to:
    http://mymail.mail.com/scripts/common/forgotpasswd.cgi?login=><script>document.writeln(document.cookie)</script></p>

    CREDITS

    Vulnerability discovered by Digital Shadow.

    INFO

    Security Advisory #03
    Published: 03rd January 2002

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