Found the error Not allowed to load local resource: file:///etc/passwd while looking at infosec.pub’s communities page. There’s a community called “ignore me” that adds a few image tags trying to steal your passwd file.

You have to be extremely poorly configured for this to work, but the red flags you see should keep you on your toes for the red flags you don’t.

  • Farthom@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Holy shit this is kind of unsettling. Though I would expect ALL major browsers to reject reading any local files like this… would this kind of thing actually succeed somewhere/somehow?

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      1 year ago

      If you ran your browser as root and configured your browser to load local resources on non-local domains maybe. I think you can do that in chrome://flags but you have to explicitly list the domains allowed to do it.

      I’m hoping this is just a bad joke.

        • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Are you sure? What do you get when you run $ cat /etc/passwd in terminal? Just paste the results here 😇

          Edit: to anyone reading this on the future, don’t actually do this, it was a joke

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            1 year ago

            yup pretty sure

            $ cat /etc/passwd
            fox:hunter2:1000:1000::/home/fox:/usr/bin/zsh
            

            😉

          • delial@lemmy.sdf.org
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            Since you told me not to. There isn’t a risk on most linux systems; passwords were moved to /etc/shadow a long time ago. It only leaks the names of your users and largely useless info for most attackers:

            root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
            daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
            bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
            sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin
            sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
            games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
            man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
            lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
            mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/usr/sbin/nologin
            news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/usr/sbin/nologin
            uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/sbin/nologin
            proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
            www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
            backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/usr/sbin/nologin
            list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin
            irc:x:39:39:ircd:/run/ircd:/usr/sbin/nologin
            gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin
            nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
            _apt:x:100:65534::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
            systemd-network:x:101:102:systemd Network Management,,,:/run/systemd:/usr/sbin/nologin
            systemd-resolve:x:102:103:systemd Resolver,,,:/run/systemd:/usr/sbin/nologin
            messagebus:x:999:999:System Message Bus:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
            systemd-timesync:x:998:998:systemd Time Synchronization:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
            systemd-coredump:x:997:997:systemd Core Dumper:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
            delial:x:1000:1000:,,,:/home/delial:/bin/bash
            sshd:x:103:65534::/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin
            xrdp:x:104:110::/run/xrdp:/usr/sbin/nologin
            dictd:x:105:111:Dictd Server,,,:/var/lib/dictd:/usr/sbin/nologin
            nm-openvpn:x:106:112:NetworkManager OpenVPN,,,:/var/lib/openvpn/chroot:/usr/sbin/nologin
            sssd:x:107:113:SSSD system user,,,:/var/lib/sss:/usr/sbin/nologin
            
      • Farthom@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, seems highly unlikely to ever yield any results. Even if you did manage to read a file, you have to get lucky finding a password hash in a rainbow table or the password being shit enough to crack.

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          Also generally the actual password (or rather its hash) is stored in /etc/shadow on most systems from the past 20 odd years.