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U.S. Dept Of Defense · Report #2552243

Subdomain takeover ██████

Validstatus
criticalseverity
53upvotes
26 Jul 2024disclosed

How it was found

The subdomain █████ is pointing to open-elb-prod-277276106.us-east-1.elb-amazonaws.com., the domain elb-amazonaws.com was available for registration

Impact

Using this vulnerability an attacker can:

  • host unwanted/malicious content under your domain
  • receive email on subdomains mentioned above
  • effectively execute cross-site scripting attacks
  • in some cases, steal cookie data
  • in some cases, trick password managers into filling in passwords

System Host(s)

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Affected Product(s) and Version(s)

CVE Numbers

Steps to Reproduce

Visit http://████████/proof.e7437329-ab61-4f22-a049-df5b3685313a.txt

Suggested Mitigation/Remediation Actions

Remove CNAME record █████

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