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JavaScript Code Flow Manipulation

Ory Segal and Adi Sharabani

CVE-2008-2640: every Flex 3 build ships history/historyFrame.html, which does document.write on document.location.href. Direct exploitation fails because processUrl first calls parent.BrowserHistory. The fix is JavaScript flow manipulation - the attacker's parent page names a bogus iframe _ie_firstload, so the child reads an iframe where it expected a JS object and the branch flips.

Record

Researcher

Ory Segal and Adi Sharabani

In the archive

• Nominated for the 2008 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• xss
• dom
• iframe
• flash
• cve
• same-origin-policy
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a03-2021

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