[security] Open Redirector issue with checkid_immediate

Allen Tom atom at yahoo-inc.com
Mon Jun 8 21:11:27 UTC 2009


Hi All,

I believe that everything in the Security Best Practices document has 
already been discussed publicly, except for the checkid_immediate "open 
redirector" issue listed in the OP Best Practices section.

In a nutshell, checkid_immediate can be used as an open redirector, 
forcing the OP to redirect the browser with the response to the 
return_to URL. This interface can potentially be misused to make 
checkid_immediate behave similarly TinyURLs, in which an attacker could 
obfuscate a link by hiding it behind an OP's checkid_immediate interface.

If anyone would like to discuss using checkid_immdiate as an Open 
Redirector, this we should do it here.

Thanks
Allen






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