Security: Status Bar Obfuscation
Reported by
chennama...@gmail.com,
Oct 15 2016
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Issue descriptionSummary: In this issue, Brave's Status Bar will show the link where the user will be redirected but after he clicks the link, he redirected to other website. Products affected: Latest Version of Google Crome Steps To Reproduce: Open the HTML file You will see a hyperlink of google.com, So hover your mouse. See the Status Bar(located at the lower left of the browser) and you will see the link where it should be redirected Now, click the hyperlink and you will be redirected to another website which is not the expected website.
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Oct 15 2016
This bug allows users to think that they are clicking google.com link but they get redirected to other site :)
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Oct 22 2016
The status bubble is not considered a security indicator, and we make no attempt to prevent spoofing here. See https://www.chromium.org/user-experience/status-bubble#TOC-Lack-of-Security for more information. |
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Comment 1 by mmoroz@chromium.org
, Oct 15 2016