Thursday, September 13, 2018

How can you be sure that you are not looking at a fake login page - Safari and MS Edge browsers can preserve the address bar and load the content from the spoofed page. This vulnerability would allow an attacker to create fake login screens or other forms that could harvest usernames, passwords and other data from users who thought they were on a real landing page



Rafay Baloch spotted the vulnerability that could allow JavaScript to update the address bar while the page was still loading effectively causing the browser to display the intended address while loading content from the spoofed page.

Microsoft has already taken action and patched  the vulnerability (CVE-2018-8383) in its Edge browser (this will help only if you are patching regularly)  but Safari remains vulnerable as Apple has yet to patch

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/news/apples-safari-and-microsofts-edge-browsers-contain-spoofing-bug/

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