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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jan 2018
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Type: Bug-Security



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Security flaw on Google Search Android

Reported by mattsto...@gmail.com, Jan 29 2018

Issue description

On Android the search bar sends non-https traffic through to websites. If you use chrome, that sends https traffic. Please can someone correct the Google search on Android bar to send https traffic through to websites?

Matt Storms

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Labels: Needs-Feedback
Can you please provide specific steps to reproduce the issue you're describing?

I /think/ you're describing an issue only with Android itself, not with Google Chrome, is that correct?

On Android if you search via the search bar that will send non-https Google referral traffic through to the website that the user lands on. If a user uses the chrome app, that sends https referral traffic.
I can include an image pointing out the search bar in Android if you wish.
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Comment 4 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jan 29 2018

Cc: elawrence@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "elawrence@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

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Again, it sounds like you're reporting an issue with a non-Chrome UI elsewhere in Android? If that's the case, this isn't the right place to report the issue, please use https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/android-rewards/ instead.

Having said that, I suspect what you're reporting isn't actually a security vulnerability, and simply that, when a user clicks a link in the Search Results of the built-in search application on Android, that link click sends a Referer header that is the fixed string "http://www.google.com/". You'd instead prefer that the application send a Referer of "https://www.google.com/"?


Yes on the header. Google says they are all https but this is not.
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks, I've filed an issue against the Google Search team to clean this up.
Cool. Can I follow that ticket?
Unfortunately, no, the Search App is only available as an internal tracker. Thanks for the report though!
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Comment 10 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, May 8 2018

Labels: -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam allpublic
This bug has been closed for more than 14 weeks. Removing security view restrictions.

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