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Android Browser "Open in New Tab" Cookie Theft

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

In Android's stock AOSP Browser application and WebView component, the
"open in new tab" functionality allows a file URL to be opened. On
versions of Android before 4.4, the path to the sqlite cookie
database could be specified. By saving a cookie containing a

Authors

Rafay Baloch
joev [email protected]

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/gather/android_browser_new_tab_cookie_theft
    msf auxiliary(android_browser_new_tab_cookie_theft) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(android_browser_new_tab_cookie_theft) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(android_browser_new_tab_cookie_theft) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(android_browser_new_tab_cookie_theft) > run
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