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GSA Bounty · Report #299835

Link poisoning on https://secure.login.gov/ login page

Validstatus
lowseverity
$150bounty
60upvotes
25 Mar 2019disclosed

How it was found

This link leads to the genuine secure.login.gov login page, in French: https://secure.login.gov/fr?host=portswigger.net

However, if you try to change the language to English using the bar at the bottom you'll end up an external website of my choice. As users won't expect changing their language to place them on an external website, the attacker could launch a highly effective phishing attack from there by impersonating secure.login.gov

Impact

This vulnerability makes it possible to launch phishing attacks originating from secure.login.gov

This report was disclosed publicly on HackerOne and belongs to its author and the program. See the original