Broken link profile in the website leads to identity theft.
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Lacework
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spyata
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Hi,
I have found the Broken link profile in the website where the attacker can perform identity theft.
Summary :
When a web application has any pages, sources, links to external 3rd party services and are broken then the attacker can claim those endpoints to successfully conduct the attack and claim those endpoints on behalf of the target website and impersonate his identity.
From : Remote / External
Steps to Reproduce:
1. I have found the Broken link profile on the main webpage https://engineering.lacework.net/
2. I Scrolled down and clicked on the Twitter profile of the company "https://engineering.lacework.net/#" where I found that the profile is not available.
Affected IP's : IP Address Port
https://engineering.lacework.net/ 443
Recommendations :
Fix all the broken links in the web application to any external resources and make updates to the user profiles in a timely manner.
References :
https://medium.com/@iamtess5277/what-is-broken-link-hijacking-o-o-872d821da6fd
https://medium.com/@arbazhussain/broken-link-hijacking-burp-plugin-6918d922c3fb
https://hackerone.com/reports/266908
Proof of concept:
Attached screenshot for your references.
## Impact
An Adversary can carry out a BLH attack to trick the victim into clicking the link and visiting the resources which are linked to the website, this way the attacker can identify theft and steal credentials.
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State
Closed
Substate
Resolved