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Khan Academy · Report #399165

Possible Subdomain Takeover

Validstatus
mediumseverity
9upvotes
31 Aug 2018disclosed

How it was found

None of the weakness categories really fit this so I apologize for that.

The subdomain learnstormindia.khanacademy.org points to 52.203.185.84 a webflow.io proxy server (proxy-ssl.webflow.com). The CNAME entry in the subdomain is pointing to an external page service (learnstormindia.khanacademy.org. 299 IN CNAME proxy-ssl.webflow.com)Because it 404s, this leads me to believe that a subdomain takeover is possible through the webflow service as whatever this is pointing to is unused. IF it is possible to TAKEOVER therefore,by these steps the attacker should takeover this subdomian 1>Creat an account at webflow.io 2>Creat a webpage(fake login page) to host and add you custom domian learnstormindia.khanacademy.org (for adding custom subdomian you need a paid account of webflow.io someabout $15)

Impact

Subdomain takeover can be used for several purposes: 1>Malware 2>Phishing / Spear phishing 3>XSS 4>Authentication bypass

ex:- An attacker can utilize this domain learnstormindia.khanacademy.org for targeting the organization by fake login khanacademy forms, or steal sensitive information of teams (credentials, credit card information, etc)

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