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Facebook Open URL Redirection Vulnerability


About 2 week ago, I discovered an open url redirection vulnerability in Facebook that allowed me to have a facebook.com link redirect to any website without restrictions & users confirmation


Description:

[#] Title           :  Facebook Open URL Redirection 
[#] Status        :  fixed
[#] Severity     :  High
[#] Works on  :  Any browser with any version
[#] Homepage  : www.facebook.com
[#] Author       :  Jitendra Jaiswal ( India )


The flaw exists in the way facebook handled the u parameter. Visiting the link below would always redirect to the facebook homepage:
http://www.facebook.com/a.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjeet.com

But I noticed that changing the url to a another url , for example:
http://www.facebook.com/a.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyahoo.com

in that the target destination yahoo.com and it will redirect successfully:
http://www.facebook.com/a.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyahoo.com

Facebook have the ability to filter and ban particular websites from redirecting using their automatic spam and malware analysis. But not all malware/spam can be caught by Facebook, and by the time a link is banned, an attacker would have already moved on to another link.



Video Proof of Concept:




Facebook responded  after 12 days my report, and they were quick to patch the flaw in about a week and a half. The payout for this bug is $1,000.


Jitendra Jaiswal

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