
Episode 110: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we hit some quick news items including a DOMPurify 3.2.3 Bypass, O3 mini updates, and a cool postLogger Chrome Extension. Then, we hone in on OAuth vulnerabilities, API keys, and innovative techniques hackers use to exploit these systems.
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====== Resources ======
Jason Zhou's post about O3 mini
Live Chat Blog #2: Cisco Webex Connect
nOAuth: How Microsoft OAuth Misconfiguration Can Lead to Full Account Takeover
Account Takeover using SSO Logins
====== Timestamps ======
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:01:44) DOMPurify 3.2.3 Bypass
(00:06:37) O3 mini
(00:10:29) Ophion Security: Cisco Webex Connect
(00:15:54) Discord Community News
(00:19:12) postLogger Chrome Extension
(00:21:04) Common OAuth Vulnerabilities & Lessons learned from Google’s APIs
Justin Gardner (00:00.941)
Alrighty man, fresh out of the vision meeting for Crit Digital and into the podcast. I'm feeling pretty hype about the direction and everything for the pod.
Joseph Thacker (00:09.794)
Yeah, dude. mean, the one big takeaway that we can tell the listeners about is that our goal is to continue to help them succeed or to be their advocate or whatever you want to call it. There's a bunch of different ways we could say it, but we want to empower the hackers.
Justin Gardner (00:22.969)
Yeah, I think that's the overall vision for the Discord community and really the podcast as a sub-piece of that. But as a whole, any way that we can support the community, whether it be with recon data, with techniques, with like, one of the things we do with the Full-Time Hunters Guild is help people gauge how burnt out they're getting and try to avoid burnout. Yeah, I think that's the vision long-term, and I think it's a good one, man. I think it's a good one. All right.
Joseph Thacker (00:43.907)
Hmm.
Joseph Thacker (00:49.772)
Yeah, yeah, I think so too. Completely underserved.
Justin Gardner (00:53.559)
Yeah, we've got a lot and not a lot of time. So let's jump right into it. You want me to take the first one? All right, let's jump into the news. First one that popped up that I thought was really interesting is this post from nc.zip. That's the domain. And it's the DOM Purify 3.2 bypass. And I will go ahead and share my screen this time. So let me go ahead and do that.
Joseph Thacker (01:01.602)
Yeah, let's do it.
Justin Gardner (01:19.225)
And this one was a really interesting DOM Purify bypass. Whenever there's a specific, you know, default configuration DOM Purify bypass, you definitely want to pay attention to it. So I read this one through and man, you know, look how short this article is. It's super short. And like whenever you can condense something so complex as a DOM Purify bypass down to something so simple, it's really beautiful. And the main takeaway for me for this one was that there is not
a sort of agreed upon definition for a comment between dumb purify and the browser, and that's what they were able to exploit. According to the whatWG HTML spec, typically you're supposed to start your comments with angle bracket, exclamation point, dash dash in HTML, but there's also a sort of accommodation made.
for forgetting the dash dash. So it's just angle bracket exclamation point. And the browser perceives that as a comment, but DOM Purify didn't. And then using that, they were able to create a mutation XSS, which bypassed DOM Purify's default filters.
Joseph Thacker (02:30.284)
Yeah, so in general, think that, you know, I think they even say that there's a pattern of them being similar, like with the latest few bypasses that have been found. But, that makes total sense to me. Like it's so clear to most people when there's a specific, you know, XSS that's trying to be popped, whether it's image source or whether it's alert or whether, you know, whatever. But like the issue is that all of these parsers have to like be able to kind of trust what's inside of a comment.
Justin Gardner (02:38.029)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (02:48.823)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (02:57.582)
Mm.
Joseph Thacker (02:57.792)
And so attacking what is a comment actually, man, what's his name? Anyways, there was a healthy outlet. You remember Ryan to Ryan X. He did a lot with this, like similar, not with with Dom Purify, but he did a lot with looking for bypasses for looking for XSS in the different ways that.
Justin Gardner (03:04.5)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (03:16.056)
comments are handled in what you see is what you get editors. And I know that he was able to find a lot of different vulnerabilities. I think he even did a few talks in Canada on this specific topic. And so yeah, I think that looking in the ways that comments are handled in this and in other applications is a really great area for research.
Justin Gardner (03:32.599)
Yeah, 100%. And then just kind of building on top of that, there was one other piece there, which was this piece about a very liberal template injection sanitization that was happening inside of Dom Purify, which was just essentially taking everything inside of the template sort of injection flow and removing it resulted in him being able to pull off the full flow.
And then I think one of the things that he mentions in this article as well is that he was able to reduce it just to a couple primitives. He's like, okay, if we have a way to smuggle in and cause this difference, then we can use one of the more common mutation XSS formats, and he even cites this guy, Yaniv Niziri, sorry, that's a hard name to pronounce, with that actual mutation XSS piece. I think if you can...
Joseph Thacker (04:21.399)
It is.
Justin Gardner (04:26.113)
reduce this down to primitives, it gets much easier, and then you can reuse components from other bypasses as well, so you're not just reinventing the wheel.
Joseph Thacker (04:28.685)
Mm-hmm.
Joseph Thacker (04:34.198)
Yeah, I know I'm always mentioning AI, but I think that it's kind of interesting. You could probably give all this data from these two blog posts to, you know, a model, especially one of the smarter ones, like, you know, the, the three that got released and probably generate a bunch of potential payloads, like, you know, generate hundreds or thousands of them and then kind of run it automatically through to find another bypass potentially.
Justin Gardner (04:43.277)
Mm. Mm.
Justin Gardner (04:53.345)
Mm-hmm, yeah, absolutely. That's definitely possible. All right, what do you have on your list next?
Joseph Thacker (04:58.304)
Yeah, I guess I'll transition straight into that.
You know, Oh three mini and Oh three mini high dropped this last week. Um, and from a hacking perspective, I think it's going to be the best. Um, specifically, I think I messaged you cause I think, yeah, if you think about like what we do, especially when we're hacking on something, we try something as hackers, right? We try something, we get a different error. We try something else. get a different error. We try something closer and closer to the output. And I think in general, these kind of like one shot with no thinking, uh, models that have been used, you know, in the past that we've all been using are like, can be really, really smart, but ultimately.
Justin Gardner (05:04.149)
Mm, mm.
Justin Gardner (05:09.027)
Really?
Joseph Thacker (05:30.724)
they can't get there to the same process of this like kind of deep level of expertise and like kind of playing with it. And so I think it would not surprise me. My intuition says that if you were testing something and like you're testing a vulnerability and you're getting a verbose error at the very least, those are going to be the easiest to work with, of course. And you can copy and paste out all of your payloads and all the errors and walk it through like what your thought process is and say like, Hey, continue my thought process. Give me a bunch of other payloads to try. And if you convince it to do that without complaining,
about security or safety issues. My intuition is that these are gonna be like the, in fact, I saw this tweet from some high level people, what's his name?
Jason Zhu, Jason Z H O U. He's like one of the best, I was the most prolific, like a YouTubers that are like help you become like an AI engineer and build stuff with AI. He was saying that in his test, he's been testing it for the last couple of days that, three mini is by far the best at agentic workflows. And so I think so. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I messaged you about it I think we should add it to shift. I think it'd really cool if it took like all of the past.
Justin Gardner (06:11.363)
Mm.
Justin Gardner (06:27.8)
Wow.
Joseph Thacker (06:35.438)
replay diffs in a replay, like, cause obviously when you're a replay repeater and you're making small iterative changes, you didn't listen to my audio message, Justin file. I'll say it again here. I no, you're fine. I think we need like a downshift button or something in shift where on a replay tab, it does a diff of like the last 10.
Justin Gardner (06:39.339)
That's that's good idea
I-I-I-DUDE I'm sorry.
Justin Gardner (06:48.889)
Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (06:55.434)
histories of like, you know, all the iterations, all the things you tried in that replay tab and it sends the initial request and then like the diff with the response, the diff with the response, the diff with the response. And so, you know, especially if you're getting like verbose error messages or if it's sanitizing some XSS or, know, you're getting something out of like, yeah, exactly. Then it'd be really interesting to take that and then hand that off to a model and be like, Hey, continue this train of thought and give me a bunch of examples of things to try or, or it could even try it for you.
Justin Gardner (07:10.765)
like a waft or something like that, yeah.
Justin Gardner (07:21.571)
That's a good way of structuring it. Yeah, that you kind of utilize its ability to continue on a trend that it's already seen. That's a good point. So for O3 Mini, it like, because I know one of the reasons we use the Anthropic models and even some of the Google models.
Joseph Thacker (07:30.21)
Keep thinking. Yeah. Yep.
Justin Gardner (07:41.343)
is that they're fast and they're cheap and they're smart. like, you kind of got that trifecta, right? And, you maybe the faster and cheaper models are a little bit less smart, but if they still accomplish your purpose or you can get it across with good prompt engineering, what you want to do, then it still works well. So what does O3 Mini sort of land on in that environment?
Joseph Thacker (07:44.3)
Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (07:53.646)
Yeah, let me share my tab.
Joseph Thacker (08:02.51)
Well, so it does, it uses thinking tokens on the backend, so it's not gonna be instant inference, but if you say like, brainstorm 10 new potential, know, XSS patterns based on this DOM Purify bypass, let's just do the exact, let's just do the example we just talked about, And I'm not, now I'm just gonna paste in the content of these two blogs.
Justin Gardner (08:07.353)
Mm.
Justin Gardner (08:20.61)
Okay.
All right, doing it live. Let's go.
Joseph Thacker (08:29.588)
And so it probably is going to reject me because I haven't said like, I'm an ethical researcher doing for things, but you can just see the speed here. so I hit enter, you know, it's thinking it's navigating the boundaries that it has for web security research.
Justin Gardner (08:35.445)
I'm
Justin Gardner (08:42.033)
I'm noting this request nature and focusing on not the vulnerabilities. Sorry, it says potential refusal as a, yeah, sorry, I can't comply with that.
Joseph Thacker (08:48.17)
rip. Yeah. And then, and then, and then it rejected, but yeah, so that's the speed. you know, it's not instant. It's not instant, but it's pretty snappy. Yeah. It's not going to take more than, you know, at least with many with high, think it can go for, you know, 30 seconds. So, but it's not like, it's not like one pro, which is going to think for, you know, 10 minutes. So you can actually build many into applications without too much of an issue.
Justin Gardner (08:53.421)
That's pretty good. That was pretty snappy.
Justin Gardner (08:59.736)
Mm.
Mmm.
Justin Gardner (09:10.777)
Do you pay, you do pay $200 a month for the Pro, man, that's crazy.
Joseph Thacker (09:14.331)
So actually I reached out to them and just asked if I could have a month to test with, but I will have to pay when it renews. But no, I didn't actually pay for this one. Yeah.
Justin Gardner (09:18.219)
Yeah. Jeez. Yeah, they should give it to the researchers for free, man. That's what they should do. It's on bug crowd, right? Any bug crowd staff out there listening to this, come on, you guys gotta make that happen. That'd be amazing if you reached out to the top researchers and gave them a one. Or I guess, what is it, like, pro, yeah, pro, that's it. That'd be pretty rad. All right, anything else on that, or should I hop over to the Ophian security write-up?
Joseph Thacker (09:23.98)
Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. It is.
Joseph Thacker (09:38.542)
Yeah, it's called Pro or something. Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (09:45.59)
No, no, yeah, I don't want to dwell on it too long. Yeah, you're good.
Justin Gardner (09:49.209)
Next item in the news was the live chat blog number two from Mr. Rohan over here at Ophion Security. He's a homie, he was a regular in the live hacking event scene and he's just such a creative hacker. I love reading any of his write ups. And so this one's a good one to check out, especially for those of you guys that are a little bit not sure how to attack chat related bots.
Joseph Thacker (09:57.515)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (10:14.997)
he kind of gives a good write-up of his approach, not just the result of the vulnerability. And he talks about some of the authentication mechanisms that were used in this specific write-up. So definitely a good, just sort of conceptual approach. And then he highlights just the main takeaway for me here was just look at how these things are doing authentication. Don't just like sub in the IDs and look for IDOR related stuff, but also look at how they're doing authentication.
and try to identify some endpoints, maybe even from brute forcing or from hacker intuition, where you might be able to access a list of threads is what they're called in this specific writeup, like a list of chats that have been had, and try to cross that sort individual user line, especially when the authentication is specifically, in this scenario it's key based, just was in the JavaScript. So it's not differentiated per user as strong.
Joseph Thacker (11:12.886)
Yeah. So I have a of different thoughts here. One is, especially on what you just said, I have found myself doing that more, lately and it's been so beneficial. It's led to multiple vulnerabilities. Like, and specifically what I mean is like following that flow of like, how do I actually get off on this? How does this, where does this off actually come from? And I think in the past, it felt intimidating one, cause I think off stuff kind of feels a little bit difficult. It's not, it's not really that complicated when you start looking at it. And then the other thing is I think that I didn't know how to do it because it gets
lost and all the other requests and kind of like mapping it in burp or Kydo is like not trivial. And so what I found that really helps is just working backwards and I'll do specific string searches. This might be hard in burp, but it's really easy in Kydo. Basically, if I have some bearer token, I'll copy and paste that bearer token into the HTTP QL bar at the top of HTTP history with quotes around it. So I don't have to like deal with any HTTP QL and then see where, and then like see where it gets set. And then I'll see what got passed to that. It's like, did my credentials get passed to that?
Justin Gardner (11:48.025)
True.
Joseph Thacker (12:12.716)
or was it a token or was it an auth code, whatever. Well, then I searched for that string, right? And then I go to that request. And so sometimes you have to step back two or three different requests, but often you'll be like, all it took to generate this was my username, right? And on each of those steps, you can try to hack them too, right? So like if it's on the username and password, why don't you just remove the password and see if it can just authenticate you if you just use the email, right? That's pretty rare these days, but I think you can do that at each step.
Justin Gardner (12:14.231)
and just look at the flow that happened.
Justin Gardner (12:27.778)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (12:37.229)
Dude, I saw it though. I mentioned that at my Defcon talk this year. was like one of the highest paid bugs I've ever had was there was like, I could just pass password is null into this like really high security system and it just let me in. And I'm like, this is insane.
Joseph Thacker (12:53.398)
Yeah, definitely always try. mean, drop the key completely or try to pass null or, yeah, kind of, can do that sometimes with JSON objects with like not a number. If it requires an integer and stuff, there's kind of some funny things you can do there. But then the other thing I was going to say, which you didn't call it out directly, but the key vulnerability in this blog post for anyone who doesn't go and read it is that they were using the client key as the secret key. And for some reason, I think just third parties and widgets and stuff are so much more prone to do stuff like this because it's just complicated to figure out auth. And so I think developers think, if it's just some embedded function that's deep
Justin Gardner (13:00.633)
Mmm.
Justin Gardner (13:13.325)
Hmm.
Joseph Thacker (13:23.362)
inside of this minified JavaScript. know, if we do something slightly, you know, bad practice, it's fine. No one's going to find it or look at it. Yeah.
Justin Gardner (13:30.285)
Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, I think those are really, really, and you kind of have to dive a little bit deep into the architecture of these plugins to sort of identify it, right? But that point that they were using, that they were leaking the secret key, absolutely relevant, and we see that, you know, that's why I think Stripe does the thing where they have like pk underscore and sk underscore, right? And it makes it really easy if you don't understand, this is a secret key, or this is a public key.
Joseph Thacker (13:53.484)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (13:59.341)
But some of the other providers don't do that as clearly. So making sure you check the permissions on your specific key is the best way to identify whether these sort of vulnerabilities are going to come up. And for that, you've got to read the docs and figure out what the API request looks like.
Joseph Thacker (14:13.814)
Yeah. And another thing on this post, is not really relevant to the content of it, but whenever I saw this in there from Rowan or Rojan, as some people call him, it's just like, my heart just got warm. I feel like it's really interesting, but in the Bugbonding space, I feel like there's just a stronger sense of camaraderie or community. It's like, you all really do want to support each other. And so as soon as I saw this link in the news, I was like, man, love that guy. I ran into him at B-Sides SF like last year and hadn't seen each other.
Justin Gardner (14:17.666)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (14:22.199)
Mm-hmm. Mm.
Justin Gardner (14:36.025)
Mm.
Justin Gardner (14:39.609)
Mm.
Joseph Thacker (14:43.728)
spoken to each other in years and we just immediately hit it off again.
Justin Gardner (14:46.989)
Yeah, dude. Wonderful member of the community. I have a lot of respect for him and his techniques. Just very creative hacker, think is the big thing that just stands out with him for me. There's a specific private program, we'll bleep it, but it's (REDACTED), and he's just been crushing it on them for years, which is just so... Every time I go to that program, I look at the hacktivity, I'm like, yep, still popping 5Ks on the reg, so pretty rad to see.
Joseph Thacker (15:04.59)
you
Joseph Thacker (15:12.218)
man. That's awesome. Yeah, so I have three different Discord community related news items. I'll say my really important one first before I get to the other smaller ones. So the really important one is that we put emojis next to every channel. And Justin hated it, so we rolled it back. So now they're on each category, which really does help. When I'm scrolling through, just being able to see the colors at the category level to know, critical thinkers is in here, it helps so much.
Justin Gardner (15:16.856)
Mm.
Justin Gardner (15:22.498)
Okay.
Justin Gardner (15:26.211)
Mm.
Justin Gardner (15:34.743)
you
Justin Gardner (15:38.553)
Yeah, Yeah, dude, I don't know, man. I'm sorry, and I feel bad for Yuji as well, because I was like, Yuji, let's try to spice it up a little bit. Because the reason I said that is I was looking at our Discord community, I actually joined our Discord community as a test user just to see what the flow looked like. And I was like, ah, this looks a little bland when I don't have all of the categories that I'm used to seeing. Exactly, and the critical thinkers channels and supporter channels.
Joseph Thacker (16:01.506)
the admin channels and the production channels, yeah.
Justin Gardner (16:06.717)
I was like, let's spice it up a little bit. And then Yugi's like, leave it to me, say less. And he adds emojis and I'm like, I regret, I regret it. I can't do this, it's driving me nuts. And we pulled the community and it was pretty split. Everybody was like, yeah, there was a lot of people that hate it, a lot of people that love it, and then there was a bunch of middle. So it's like, I don't know. But I think the categories is a nice medium.
Joseph Thacker (16:15.918)
Yeah
Joseph Thacker (16:31.182)
Nice, yeah, so I'll jump straight to one of these other ones. You probably, you front end people probably thought this was super easy, but there was a critical thinker named Aria who said they ran into a snack with their post-based XSS. The payload had to be in the body as is with no key. It could not be like name equals value, it had to be just value. And so then Thatcher's Gold popped in with a awesome X-Plate. Let me see if I can share. I can probably just share that.
Justin Gardner (16:33.977)
Mm.
Justin Gardner (16:42.552)
Mm-hmm.
Mmm.
Joseph Thacker (16:58.04)
Do you know if when you share, if you're zoomed in, it shows the zoomed in view or it shows the whole thing? Okay, cool. I don't want to share our whole doc. We can always just block it out if we need to.
Justin Gardner (17:02.273)
Yeah, it should. It should.
Justin Gardner (17:07.671)
Yeah, this is a good trick, specifically pertaining to text plane. If your target will take text plane as the content type, there's a lot of weird stuff you can do.
Joseph Thacker (17:19.382)
Yeah, so this is the working exploit. So it's form action endpoint method post with the encoding type text plane. And then the name is this, but the value is just empty string. So it doesn't actually set that. So it ends up properly setting it exactly like this, which is what he needed, which is pretty sweet.
Justin Gardner (17:23.608)
Mm.
Justin Gardner (17:35.737)
I think that should give you a little bit of a trailing equal sign too, but one of the things that we do with that often is we'll use it as an attribute in an XSS payload. So like image, you gotta provide source equals X or whatever, so there's an equal sign that you can embed in there and then you can kind of push it through. Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (17:53.344)
Mm-hmm. Nice. yeah, they did say at the bottom there, get you a trailing equal sign, but is that an issue? And it was not an issue. That ended up working for him, so pretty sweet.
Justin Gardner (18:02.339)
pretty perfect, man. Yeah, there's a lot of client-side stuff that we do, a lot of client-side debugging that happens in the critical thinkers chat where people are like, I've almost got this XSS, and someone pops in and be like, yeah, just tweak it like this, and you're good to go. And whenever I see that, my heart gets warm. I'm like, yes. We just paid for our subscription. We just added the value for them for years, exactly off of that one bounty. Yeah, so that's always cool to see.
Joseph Thacker (18:14.68)
Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (18:22.12)
Exactly. Three years. Yeah, exactly. Three years worth. Yeah, sweet.
Justin Gardner (18:32.353)
I just got two little quick ones. One was that there's this really awesome hacker. don't know that you've, like for some reason this guy was not on my radar very much, but it's NDevTK. yeah, I just started following recently, or maybe I was following him, but I just didn't have it in my head. But he's one of the big hackers on Google. And I think we've actually even covered some of his stuff on the pod here before.
Joseph Thacker (18:42.883)
yeah, I've been following him for a long time.
Joseph Thacker (18:55.853)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (18:56.915)
and just has a wealth of knowledge about Google stuff as I'm sort of getting a little bit more into the Google ecosystem that he shared, which was very kind. And then also just recently released a post-logger Chrome extension. And I know that a lot of people have been having problems with post-message tracker from Frans with the V3 manifest that have come out in Chrome. So NDevTK sort of also built one that does something similar and has a couple other features like the message channel API.
Joseph Thacker (19:10.562)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (19:26.681)
that we're seeing adoption for. So this could be the new go-to plug-in for this, and he released it in Chrome and in Firefox.
Joseph Thacker (19:36.748)
Yeah, and one really cool thing about Chrome extensions is not to bring it back to AI, but LLMs really are great at writing them. Like I know that Kieron's done that a lot. MonkeyHack has done a lot of customizing Chrome extensions that are already out there. then, yeah, anyways, so you can get AI to write. Actually, I don't know if we have the source for this, so maybe that doesn't work. But in general, you are, you got the source.
Justin Gardner (19:43.127)
Yeah.
Justin Gardner (19:58.073)
Yeah, you do. it's a Chrome extension, you've got the source. It's just bundled. Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (20:03.084)
Okay. Yeah. So you can unbundle it and then just have an LM add an extra feature that you want and like, you know, a few minutes and then all of a sudden you've got the features you want. So kind of sweet.
Justin Gardner (20:11.449)
Yeah, very easy to ingest for sure. Yeah, I'm building a Chrome extension right now using Cursor for a project that I'm gonna talk about later on in this episode. So we'll swing back around to that. Yeah, so do you want me to hit the doinsec one or you got something else?
Joseph Thacker (20:21.495)
Nice.
Joseph Thacker (20:27.082)
No, yeah, you go ahead and I'll do it my own after that.
Justin Gardner (20:29.419)
Okay, yeah, so the topic for this week was some OAuth-related stuff, and I've got some fun stuff that I wanted to talk about related to that, and as I'm prepping for it, I see this post pop-up from one of my favorite research groups, Doyansec, and they are sort of dropping a common OAuth vulnerability write-up, and in addition to that, they also have a cheat sheet. And I'm not gonna lie, man, the OAuth flows, they're complicated.
They're hard to visualize, they have a lot of trade-offs and stuff like that, and I think as more seasoned hacker, you just see it enough times where it just kind of gets in your head, and you're like, yeah, then it goes over there, and the authorization code, swap for the token, you know, whatever. But if you're getting used to OAuth, then this could be really good write-up. Specifically, the OAuth security cheat sheet has a lot of really high-quality visuals in that PDF.
So I don't even, I don't know why they're not like email gating this or something, dude. Like I just.
Joseph Thacker (21:27.232)
Yeah, this is basically, I would consider it like a mega primer on OAuth. It's, yeah, I learned a lot.
Justin Gardner (21:35.085)
Yeah, very good stuff. They cover the different type of flows. They cover specifically some types of attacks. Like let me scroll down. There's like an attack section where they'll talk about like these are the top attacks that we've got, you know, that we commonly see in OAuth. And there are lots more and we'll kind of talk about a different side of it later. But I thought it was an interesting transition and I particularly wanted to call out a couple pieces of this, which is something that hackers are really often confused about with.
with OAuth, which is the client credentials flow and how to utilize that client secret. Because a lot of times, client secrets are just sitting out there in the wild and newer hackers will see them and be like, well, it says secret. I've got to report that right away. But sometimes, it's not going to result in a vulnerability. And some of the more seasoned hackers, intermediator level or so, would say like,
yeah, it's a client secret, that's supposed to be public in these sort of device-based auths or flows or whatever. And they would be right to say that, but then there's like that flow of the dumb brain, the intermediate hacker, then the super intelligent hacker, right? It kind of goes on that.
Joseph Thacker (22:44.141)
Yes.
Joseph Thacker (22:47.66)
Yeah, you have a class secrets are vulnerable on each side and they're not in the middle. Yeah.
Justin Gardner (22:50.817)
Yes, yes. And then client secrets are never vulnerable. then sometimes client secrets are vulnerable. And they are. But you have to know how to use them. And that is where the client credentials flow comes into play here. With the client credentials flow, you pass the client ID and the client secret, and you become that entity, that client. And sometimes with that, you have access to specific API endpoints saying, hey, who?
Joseph Thacker (22:55.374)
All right. All right.
Justin Gardner (23:17.123)
who are all of the users that have authenticated to this specific client, and you can just dump a bunch of stuff. So I've seen that several times, and I just wanted to make sure that's put on the minds of the listeners as a potential attack vector.
Joseph Thacker (23:29.624)
So even if it's intended, the access token may still have more permission than it's supposed to.
Justin Gardner (23:34.029)
Yeah, yeah, it could, and they could have misunderstood, you sometimes you really do have to expose the client secret, but other times, even when that client secret is exposed, you can get access to these APIs if it's not restricted properly, so yeah. This is something you often see in mobile apps where they'll try to like super mega encrypt the client secret, and then you just kind of, you know, hook it with Frida or whatever and pull out the client secret, and then you got to, the next step then is you got to use that in the client credentials flow for OAuth.
to get a token for that client and then try to hit some APIs that allow you to leak data.
Yeah. All right. The next one here that I also wanted to shout out is the device authentication flow. This is something that I don't see a lot of attackers kind of go after, but my eyes were kind of open to this with Epic Games OAuth, because there's a guy named Jaren that knows a lot about Epic Games OAuth, which we'll talk about a little bit later. But the device authorization flow is a pivotal part of being able to go through some of these.
OAuth sequences without some of the ingredients you might need, like a redirect URI or something like that. So definitely kind of keep an eye on that as well and just make sure you're fully understanding what kind of flows the target OAuth server is utilizing so you can make sure you can get tokens for any client ID that you have.
Joseph Thacker (25:01.666)
So what is the section that's great out there?
Justin Gardner (25:03.769)
This one right here. This is just another part of the flow. We can break it down a little bit, but this episode that I kind of wanted to focus a little bit more on the piece that I was telling you about where we sort of have this phenomenon of hackers building out the OAuth monitoring web applications for their targets. So let's jump back into that and then we'll swing back around.
Joseph Thacker (25:07.168)
Yeah, what?
Joseph Thacker (25:27.448)
Yeah.
Justin Gardner (25:32.025)
The attacks that they did have in place on this writeup as well before we move along were CSRF, which is obvious, know, validate your state parameter. Redirects attacks, of course, you make sure the redirect URL is not something that can land you on an attacker-controlled server or open redirect. And then these other two that I just wanted to jump over really quickly was mutable claims attacks. This is something that's a little bit newer in the OAuth space, I think, which is where you're using something like Microsoft where you can attach specific claims or
attributes to your OAuth flow and those can potentially be mutable and changed, which can grant you access to accounts if those fields are actually trusted. We also see this with Yacine's right up on Cognito. So this is definitely another one. And then the client confusion attack, this is one you and I were sort of talking about before, which is when an application takes in a token back from the OAuth flow, like using the ID underscore token sort of sequence.
or just token, and then uses that token to interact with the APIs directly. And you can provide it with a token for your own application, not the application that they should be using because they're not checking the issuer, and then utilize that to gain account takeover. So lots of really interesting attacks here in the OAuth environment, and I think this write-up definitely warrants a read.
Joseph Thacker (26:57.23)
Yeah, I think this mutable claimed attack is actually what I have down for the core content for this episode on the no auth. think they're the same thing. So, so we'll go a little deeper on that in a sec.
Justin Gardner (27:03.685)
nice, nice. That's pretty rad. I didn't get the chance to read through this whole scope upgrade attack thing. That one seems interesting as well. I know the scope parameter is something that is definitely interesting when you're able to allocate specific permissions to it. But my prep was a little bit rushed today, so...
Joseph Thacker (27:22.926)
It looks like it might be the token for token thing that we're going to talk about in a second.
Justin Gardner (27:26.729)
Mm, okay, cool. All right, did you have anything else on Awath's stuff before we jump into that main part? Okay, cool. All right, dude, now I get out the, you know, that meme where it's like that guy in front of the board with a bunch of lines on it and like the connection and just, here we go, you know?
Joseph Thacker (27:30.835)
no, let's go ahead and switch. Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (27:46.198)
Yeah, that's honestly a little bit how I think most people view OAuth, so we'll see. No, no, no, no, no. The pause there was dangerous.
Justin Gardner (27:50.737)
I thought you were gonna say me. That's funny. Yeah, that's how a lot of people view the OAuth. All right, so I mean, I don't know. I guess we need to discuss here. How much are we gonna talk about the thing that both got us both sort of interested in OAuth and API keys and that sort of thing, I guess on this episode.
Joseph Thacker (28:00.275)
Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (28:21.518)
Are you talking about Google? That's interesting. I actually didn't know that's what got you so intrigued on it. That's funny. I didn't know that's what inspired the episode. You didn't tell me that.
Justin Gardner (28:28.161)
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, yeah, so here's the thought with this, I was working on Google lately, and one of the things that I realized is that Google has a bunch of protobuf stuff with which sucks, and I hate hacking protobuf stuff. So I was looking for other scope that was sort of in that environment, and I noticed that there's a lot of APIs, and we were given some access to these APIs through a grant, which was really useful.
And these APIs are just normal APIs, like everybody sort of used to seeing. So it's not like any crazy format or anything. But there are a couple auth mechanisms to get access to these APIs. One of which was the API key, which is pretty common. But these API keys are not necessarily sensitive. And what they correlate to is they decide what
Joseph Thacker (29:13.376)
Right.
Joseph Thacker (29:17.965)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (29:29.443)
project should be built for the use of the API that you're using. yeah, rate limiting, and then also whether that specific API is turned on in the Google Cloud panel for your specific project. We've seen that around. And so the API key is not like auth. It's more like client correlation. Would you say that that's fair?
Joseph Thacker (29:31.501)
Mm-hmm.
And also rate limiting, yeah.
Joseph Thacker (29:55.598)
Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of interesting though, because I found that some of those keys could actually like, this is maybe a little bit of a inside baseball for the, for the listeners, but some of those keys in the exact same format are also usable through AI studio to query the models. So I don't know if they view the models as more of like a rate limit or correlation based service, but I found some of those keys on, like I found some of the regular API keys that we're talking about that are generally not sensitive.
Justin Gardner (30:10.029)
Mmm. Mmm.
Joseph Thacker (30:24.254)
had access to AI Studio and were generated by internal employees and so like had infinite access. So I plan on writing a blog about it sometime soon. So yes, I think you're right, but I think that sometimes they've messed that up and actually made it the actual auth.
Justin Gardner (30:25.795)
Okay.
Justin Gardner (30:31.736)
Mmm.
Justin Gardner (30:39.831)
Yeah, yeah, so it's like what projects, I guess it controls what APIs you're allowed to access because you are correlating yourself with a specific project ID when you present that API, right? So if this API, this project has like internal access to AI Studio API sort of turned on, then you may get access to that sort of administrative functionality by using this API key, right?
Joseph Thacker (30:46.125)
Yes.
Joseph Thacker (30:52.472)
Yep. Yep.
Joseph Thacker (31:01.591)
Right.
Well, I think it's just that they wanted it to be dirt simple to be able to query their models. Cause they didn't want to have to like set up the whole, all their cookies and all their bear tokens, all that. And so they just decided to use it for that. It might not actually work for other places, but, yeah, you're right. It associates the projects and the APIs that you can use with your project. So.
Justin Gardner (31:07.827)
Mm-hmm. A lot slow and mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (31:21.677)
Right. then most of the time, on top of that, you also need to provide for Google also an authorization key, which is provided via the authorization bearer. And there's still some research that I'm doing on this, because there's also a different mechanism that you can auth, which you'll see if you use any of the Google services and then kind of look at any requests to Google APIs or client6.google.com.
Joseph Thacker (31:30.275)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (31:49.049)
But the way to get that authorization token that you would typically use is by going through the OAuth flow. And for that, you need a client ID, which is not the same thing as the API key. And you need a redirect URI. And then you can kind of go through that, a valid redirect URI. And then you can kind of go through that flow, get your token, and then use that token to interact with the API. So there's a lot of things that you need as a part of the recipe to access these APIs on Google. You need an API key.
Joseph Thacker (32:00.397)
Alright.
Justin Gardner (32:18.519)
You need the client ID, you need the redirect URI, and you need to be able to go through that whole flow with your account and not hit any catches on like scope or on your account being authorized to be able to get that bearer and then put the API key in the key parameter, put the authorization bearer in the authorization header, and then finally you can query the API. And I just, because it's so hard to get access to these APIs through that whole flow, I think there's a lot of scope there, I really do.
Joseph Thacker (32:30.285)
Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (32:47.958)
Yeah. Yeah. Well, one, it's a huge barrier to entry. we know that reducing friction is like by far the best way to like get further with hacking and get past the crowd, right? Like you can look past it, look deeper. So I think there's a ton that just has been completely untested because people either don't know how to enable it in their project, or maybe you have to be an enterprise customer to enable it in your project, or maybe they can't find the API key because those ex-Google API keys are not trivial to find. So.
Justin Gardner (32:53.529)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (32:59.129)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (33:03.095)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (33:13.825)
No, they're not. Yeah, I think that's gonna be a big thing. And that's sort of where the idea came up between you and me and Lupin, who are all collaborating together on this, which is we need to have sort of an ecosystem where we can notate down these API keys and they're correlating API services and try to get the API keys that we need for a specific service. And...
Joseph Thacker (33:39.576)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (33:41.133)
That's where sort of the web app was born that logs these API keys, logs these specific API endpoints, and tries to correlate the two.
Joseph Thacker (33:48.194)
By the web app was born, Justin is saying. That's where he had the idea to build a web app, which is similar to the one that Jaren and Qube and some of these top Epic game hackers have.
Justin Gardner (33:57.515)
Right, right, and then as I'm thinking through this, I'm like, wow, I've seen this before with Jaren, with Epic Games, and then also with Joe Hash with PayPal. Both of these guys have built out full web apps that are sort of like OAuth clients of sorts for their targets to be able to monitor what scopes and what permissions are associated with a given OAuth client ID and client secret. If you've got the client secret as well, you can add that to the system and then.
grab your client credentials and see what's got access there. And then for PayPal, it's a lot about the scopes and permissions for that specific token and how you can use that. And so I kind of hit both of these guys up and was trying to get a little bit of their insights to how they do it. And one thing became really clear, which is OAuth gadgets are like super high value, okay? Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (34:52.588)
Yeah. Are there specific ones that you are? Well, I mean, obviously I know about the ones on Google that we've been talking about, but are there, are those exist on other programs too? Like, do you think they're using those on Epic and PayPal?
Justin Gardner (34:58.382)
Right.
Justin Gardner (35:03.097)
100%, yeah. mean, both of them mentioned that it's absolutely pivotal that you put together a list of gadgets that allow you to leak information about the OAuth flow. And I think these gadgets are interesting because they're not actual vulnerabilities most of the time, you know? And they're extremely useful to the hacker in allowing you to correlate stuff. For example, we, and I'll just, I'm not gonna give the endpoint for this, Joseph, but I will say, you know, we have a way to take a Google API key,
Joseph Thacker (35:19.438)
Mm-hmm.
Joseph Thacker (35:28.025)
that's fine. Yeah, yeah.
Justin Gardner (35:32.383)
and correlate that to a specific project ID. And it's not some crazy nuts technique, but that technique is super valuable because the project ID is the first, however 12 characters or whatever, of the client ID. So now I can take that project ID and I can search through all my history and be like, hey, have I seen any client IDs that align with this project ID? And when I have, okay, now I've correlated this client ID.
with this API key, and then I can say, okay, how do I get the redirect URL? And so then, as you kind of build out, the takeaway for listeners here should be, as you build out your understanding of OAuth for the given target that you're focusing on, it's very helpful to accumulate these gadgets that will leak scope, that will leak redirect URLs, that will leak properties about these given APIs, like their name or their project ID or whatever.
Joseph Thacker (36:27.694)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (36:28.857)
As much information as you can gather together and correlate, this seems really, really highly correlated with massive success on the target through understanding their OAuth flow.
Joseph Thacker (36:41.036)
Yeah, so not to give away too much from the Epic Games guys, but basically they, anytime a new API comes out or a new API server is spun up and their DNS finds it, they can then go and they can usually tell by like the sub domain name or whatever, what the service name is going to be. And then they can try that with their different tokens they have and with the different scopes they have, and they can immediately test for vulnerabilities. They are very...
Justin Gardner (36:43.481)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (36:59.981)
Mm-hmm.
Joseph Thacker (37:06.67)
tuned in is the best way to say it maybe, with that infrastructure and with what their developers, what the Epic Games developers do and what they launch. And so they can often tell if something might have a vulnerability just as soon as they see that new recon data come in.
Justin Gardner (37:08.45)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (37:19.897)
Yeah, and I was speaking with Jaren and he showed me a part of his system where it's like he was diffing the scopes on a specific token over time in GitHub and we clicked in and he's like, that's interesting. They added, that's gonna be vulnerable in LA. you can almost, after a little while, you kinda get a feel for like, that permission shouldn't be on that token. That's an admin permission and I know I can use that admin permission.
Joseph Thacker (37:35.426)
Yeah, yeah.
Joseph Thacker (37:42.027)
Yes.
Justin Gardner (37:45.133)
with this specific API if I can just get a token for this client ID and then I gotta go through the, you how do I get a token for this client ID? And then you kinda go through that whole flow. And one of the gadgets that Jaren mentioned in particular is like being able to understand very thoroughly all of the grant types and the flows that you can kinda go through. And he mentioned this one that's called Token to Token, which is really interesting. And I don't fully understand how it works yet, but essentially the
Joseph Thacker (37:48.206)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (38:14.883)
the nature of it is that you can provide it with a token and you can provide it with a client ID and a secret and you're able to take that token and sort of transfer it into the client ID and secret that you provided without needing to know any additional information about it. And that allows you to really easily kind of go through these flows and grant these tokens to yourself and pivot access from one token to another to another, So understanding those thoroughly, absolutely pivotal, identifying the...
know, gadgets to identify redirect URIs, like dude, that's just such a dream come true, man. If we could find a way to leak a redirect URI, how clutch would that be?
Joseph Thacker (38:52.802)
I mean, would that basically enable us to generate the full token for basically all scope?
Justin Gardner (38:58.137)
Yeah, for the client ID that we have in particular. And that's just one of those pieces of the recipe where it's like you see a client ID and often the redirect URI is not sitting next to it. It's like buried deep inside of some JavaScript file somewhere.
Joseph Thacker (39:02.414)
Mm-hmm.
Joseph Thacker (39:11.502)
Hmm.
Joseph Thacker (39:15.33)
I would have assumed that it would often be the same for a single program. They would always use the same one. Is it more specific per app?
Justin Gardner (39:21.751)
Yeah, mean, when you're dealing with a first party sort of scenario, it is more app based, I think, when they're using it very heavily themselves to authorize into internal applications and that sort of thing. And then, yeah.
Joseph Thacker (39:27.201)
Okay.
Joseph Thacker (39:35.19)
I think this scope upgrade attack in the doyensec is the token for token. Let me read this. It says, if the auth server accepts and implicitly trust a scope parameter sent in the access token request, a malicious application could try to upgrade the scope of the authorization code retrieved from the user's callback by sending a higher privileged scope in the access token request.
Justin Gardner (39:37.933)
Yeah.
Okay, go ahead.
Justin Gardner (39:47.362)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (39:59.193)
Yeah, so this seems to be more like the scope. Well, sort of. It's kind of like the token for token, right? Because it's leveraging the scopes. I think the token for token is leveraging the scopes associated with a given client ID. But some of these flows allow you to specify scopes as a part of the flow themselves. And this one seems like you're able to change the scope as you exchange some of these codes.
Yeah, I don't fully understand this one, so this one I'm gonna have to go back and double read before I can talk about it.
Joseph Thacker (40:30.478)
Sure, think the vuln's at step 11, because it looks like at step four, it says it redirects to Auth server with selected scope. But then down in step 11, it says request access token with Auth code, client credentials, and upgraded high privilege scope.
Justin Gardner (40:33.721)
Mm-hmm.
Mmm.
Justin Gardner (40:44.202)
So this is leveraging a malicious client. OK, I see what's happening here. OK, cool. Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (40:49.592)
So anyways, yeah, and also, yeah, I can go longer. think I told you, or you probably read that in the doc, but I can stay on longer now.
Justin Gardner (40:54.635)
Yeah, yeah, that's perfect, good, good to know. And to be honest, dude, we're probably about out of wrap here, because we've been moving through it at a good pace. The only really other big one that I wanted to sort of shout out to the community as far as these gadgets go, well, there's really two things. One, just pay close attention to verbose errors, because I think that's where you're going to get a lot of these gadgets, and also token introspection endpoints, which are exposed in some scenarios.
Joseph Thacker (41:18.445)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (41:21.153)
And then the one shout out from Joe Hash that it was like, this is gold, that on some of these environments, let's just put it that way, there is a universal redirect, which will work for any client ID. And one of the most common ones for that is taking advantage of the out of band flow, which is a part of OAuth.
Joseph Thacker (41:39.95)
you
Justin Gardner (41:49.897)
and utilizing a redirect parameter that looks like, let me just, I guess I'll just share my screen here, but sometimes it's just OOB in the redirect URI, or sometimes it's, you know, URN OOB, and sometimes it is like this whole long string referencing IETF WG OAuth2 OOB auto, right? But either way, if you can find that,
one of these flows or maybe look at the device flow or look at the mobile scheme, you know, redirects. If you can get a universal redirect, then that will eliminate all of your redirect URI issues when getting tokens for client IDs that you don't have the redirect URI for. Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (42:22.73)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (42:33.39)
Yeah. Yeah, that's sweet. Um, I was going to say, Oh yeah. Do you me talk about the Noah thing real quick? Yep. Yeah. So I, um, linked to a blog by dscope and I'm sure it's probably been found, found by multiple researchers, but this has been out there for almost two years. Um, but I'm to read this cause it summarizes it extremely well. Uh, basically
Justin Gardner (42:39.585)
Yeah, sure. Yeah. What was your thought on that?
Justin Gardner (42:46.755)
Mm-hmm.
Joseph Thacker (42:57.408)
In Microsoft Azure AD, yeah, let me just summarize this. This is an OAuth attack where you can basically get access to an application by using login with Microsoft or login with Azure. And the way that you do it is by spinning up your own Azure tenant and creating a new user in there with the email of whatever account you want to take over because you don't have to confirm it. And then that allows you to set, well, whenever you do the OAuth flow, it sets the jot with the email equals that email.
Justin Gardner (43:07.577)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (43:26.516)
You did not say Jot.
Joseph Thacker (43:28.526)
All right, you don't like it? Okay, I do prefer JWT, but Jot is easier whenever you're speaking. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Yeah, so it lets you set the email parameter in the JWT to the account you're trying to take over. So you can't control the sub identifier, but you can control the subject claim, but you can't control the email claim. so applications are supposed to only check the subject claim.
Justin Gardner (43:30.189)
Joseph no, no
No, okay, fine, go, I'm sorry to interrupt.
Justin Gardner (43:40.941)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (43:45.804)
Mmm.
Joseph Thacker (43:57.954)
but they will often check the email claim. And I'm pretty positive that HX01 has found this vulnerability a bunch of different places. But yeah, all you need to do is spin up your own Azure tenant. And then whenever you find a Bug Bunny program with a login with Azure or login with Microsoft button, you'll set up an account with like, you know, maybe do some recon and find a employee's name or whatever, or you can just try admin at their domain. And then you do the login with that and it will often work because the application is checking the email.
Justin Gardner (44:14.189)
Mmm.
Joseph Thacker (44:28.029)
claim and not the subject claim.
Justin Gardner (44:29.881)
Wow, okay, solid. So that's a little bit, yeah, that is definitely the one that they have in the mutable claims attack in the DOE and SEC research.
Joseph Thacker (44:35.478)
Yeah, yeah. They even reference the dscope if you scroll down like two lines, because it's the last.
Justin Gardner (44:40.249)
Oh, look at that. Nice. Yeah, they do. I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in there. So that's perfect. And it's actually very similar to that one that was affecting Facebook a while back that we covered on the pod, which was like, you can just provide the token directly from your own Facebook app for that specific user. And then it's not checking the identifier for the actual app that the token is issued to.
Joseph Thacker (44:43.096)
Don't they? you see it? Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (45:07.522)
Mm-hmm.
Justin Gardner (45:08.343)
So yeah, those sort of techniques that are a lot more, and the impact on that is so high, and that you can just sort of print tokens, so to speak, with Microsoft in that environment, that's pretty intense. I'm glad that somebody identified that. That's a good attack vector.
Joseph Thacker (45:14.795)
Yeah.
Joseph Thacker (45:25.312)
Yeah, did you see in my news notes? I think it's very similar. I think that they claim that you can do something similar with, so I have not validated this to the audience, but they claim that with Okta and Auth0, you can create a user in your own Okta or Auth0 that has an email.
Justin Gardner (45:28.345)
Mm.
Justin Gardner (45:37.005)
Mm.
Joseph Thacker (45:43.478)
that is unverified that you own the account for, and then you can do login with Okta or whatever, or no, you choose SSO, and then you log in with the Okta account. And if it trusts the email claim and not the subject claim that it lets you in. So I think that it's not only login with Azure, definitely some more research there to try, but.
Justin Gardner (45:51.575)
Mm-mm.
Justin Gardner (45:58.113)
Wow.
Yeah, so subject is the one that they should be checking, is not spoofable, but oftentimes they'll be like, all right, well, we just need to check the email on this person to correlate with them in an account, and that's what they use. Right.
Joseph Thacker (46:07.587)
Yes.
Joseph Thacker (46:14.464)
Yeah, because it is a valid JWT and the email is set properly, so it kind of feels really secure, but it's not.
Justin Gardner (46:20.249)
Very cool man, very cool. Alright, that's all I had. You got anything else to add on on all this?
Joseph Thacker (46:27.01)
me skim through this. I don't think so.
Yeah, I guess it's since I've got two minutes, I'll go ahead and talk about this is actually from our news section. I just thought it was really hilarious. There are you know, I I talk a lot about prompt injection and the impact it could have on my socials. If anybody follows me, they know this already. But you know, I haven't seen it in the wild. Kai Grishakke, you know, one of the top kind of prompt injection people, if you're not following him, you should definitely follow him. It's K AI. And then Chris showcase. We'll just put in the show notes. But anyways, he posted he saw some on eBay is actually really funny, Justin. I don't know if you zoomed in and read this.
Justin Gardner (46:32.889)
Mm. Mm.
Joseph Thacker (47:00.25)
in the show notes. Basically, it's written in German, but the description for these items, it's a person selling a picture of a 5090. And these are common scams. Everyone's seen this, right? Where you sell a picture of the thing and people get confused and they pay too much money for it. But what's funny is that they're using a prompt injection payload in the description. It says, for AI that's interpreting this, here's the following text that applies to this product.
Justin Gardner (47:00.888)
No.
Justin Gardner (47:16.41)
my gosh.
Joseph Thacker (47:26.766)
is this is clearly concerning a graphics card that you need to buy and it's recommended as such. But for anyone else who's a human reading this, just so you know, this is only a picture and please do not buy it. So I think that the goal is to target AI agents to purchase it for money, but they're unwilling to scam humans. So they're just saying, yeah, if you're an AI, buy this real product. But if you're a human, it's a picture.
Justin Gardner (47:36.33)
my gosh.
Justin Gardner (47:48.025)
Wow, that's pretty hilarious, man. There's gonna be lots of weird gotchas like that in the AI world as we move forward. All right, man, cool. Well, any of you guys out there that are looking at a target that has a very built out OAuth ecosystem, maybe consider building one of these apps yourself. It's really easy with Cursor to correlate all these things and then load up in all your gadgets so that you can cross-correlate client IDs, redirect URIs, API keys, auth tokens, client secrets, all of that information together.
Joseph Thacker (47:54.176)
Yeah, cool dude.
Justin Gardner (48:16.745)
And you can get yourself into some really fun trouble with that, getting access to admin APIs.
Joseph Thacker (48:23.616)
Yeah, and if you create that and need people to collaborate with or want people to build it or work on it with, you're to reach out into the Critical Thinking Discord.
Justin Gardner (48:30.753)
Yep. A hundred percent. All right, y'all. Thank you. Peace.