Episode 58: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we finally sit down with Youssef Samouda and grill him on his various techniques for finding and exploiting client-side bugs and postMessage vulnerabilities. He shares some crazy stories about race conditions, exploiting hash change events, and leveraging scroll to text fragments.
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Today’s Guest:
https://twitter.com/samm0uda?lang=en
https://ysamm.com/
Resources:
Client-side race conditions with postMessage:
https://ysamm.com/?p=742
Transferable Objects:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Transferable_objects
Every known way to get references to windows, in JavaScript:
https://bluepnume.medium.com/every-known-way-to-get-references-to-windows-in-javascript-223778bede2d
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:04:27) Client-side race conditions with postMessage
(00:18:12) On Hash Change Events and Scroll To Text Fragments
(00:32:00) Finding, documenting, and reporting complex bugs
(00:37:32) PostMessage Methodology
(00:45:05) Youssef's Vuln Story
(00:53:42) Where and how to look for ATO vulns
(01:05:21) MessagePort
(01:14:37) Window frame relationships
(01:20:24) Recon and JS monitoring
(01:37:03) Client-side routing
(01:48:05) MITMProxy
