Possible Take Over Subdomain For Inbound Emails
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Khan Academy
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Reported by
rootbakar___
Vulnerability Details
Technical details and impact analysis
Hello KhanAcademy Security Team,
I'm **rootbakar**, The researcher identified that the affected url points to sendgrid.net, via a DNS CNAME record. As a result of this an attacker could potentially initate a subdomain take over by registering the subdomain sendgrid.khanacademy.org on sendgrid and consiquently leverage this for further attacks. Additionally it has been noted that sendgrid is a service for email marketing so theoretically should an attacker be able to gain access to the subdomain they could potentially gain access to emails too.
###Affected URLs
sendgrid.khanacademy.org
###Risk Breakdown
Risk: **Medium**
Difficulty to Exploit: **Medium**
Authentication: None
###Recommended Fix
Check your DNS-configuration for subdomains pointing to services not in use.
Set up your external service so it fully listens to your wildcard DNS.
###Reference
https://www.hackerone.com/blog/Guide-Subdomain-Takeovers
http://blog.pentestnepal.tech/post/149985438982/reading-ubers-internal-emails-uber-bug-bounty
https://hackerone.com/reports/166826
## Impact
**a way to take over subdomain for inbound emails**
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State
Closed
Substate
Resolved