Closed
Bug 288817
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
password fishing by <a href="linka">linkb</a>
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 279191
People
(Reporter: bugzillaspambox, Assigned: mscott)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
I just recieved a mail from "ebay". They told me that my account data needs to
be updated. Well actually I am no ebay member (at least not anymore) and also
the mail has been handled as junk so I thought that there was something wrong.
At the end of the mail there was a link:
https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn
but it refered me to http://84.247.60.1/ebay
It simulates to be the login page of ebay, but i guess it's not.
In my case this wasn't a big deal, but i guess no everybody checks the details
of the page if he gets a message like this. so thunderbird should check if the
link is refered to an other host than it shows (<a href="linka">linkb</a> host
of linka is not host of linkb) then a message with a little warning should appear.
it's not a absolut necessary function of thunderbird, but try to image what
happens if this happens to you with your bank data or something worse. I still
marked it as a major problem because this is the easiest way of password fishing
and could be reproduced by nearly everyone. So i guess it's not wrong to say
that it should be fixed as soon as possible...
Reproducible: Always
Comment 1•20 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 279191 ***
Group: security
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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