New Flash Click Jacking Exploit

Published: 2011-10-21
Last Updated: 2011-10-21 02:03:13 UTC
by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 1)
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Feross Aboukhadijeh posted a blog post about a vulnerability in Flash that allows for a click jacking attack to turn on the clients camera and microphone. The attack is conceptually similar to the original click jacking attack presented in 2008. Back then Flash adjusted the control panel. 

The original attack "framed" the entire Flash control page. To prevent the attack, Adobe added frame busting code to the settings page. Feross' attack doesn't frame the entire page, but instead includes just the SWF file used to adjust the settings, bypassing the frame busting javascript in the process. 

Update: Adobe fixed the problem. The fix does not require any patches for client side code. Instead, adobe modified the control page and applet that users load from Adobe's servers. 

Details from Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2011/10/clickjacking-issue-in-adobe-flash-player-settings-manager.html

 

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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
SANS Technology Institute
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