[Full-disclosure] Firefox3 offline support speculations

Denis Jedig seclists at syneticon.de
Tue Feb 20 19:01:56 GMT 2007


On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:11:56 +0000 pdp (architect) wrote:

> http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/firefox-offline

| If GMAIL is affected by some kind of Cross-site scripting vulnerability,
| can the attacker permanently plug malicious code inside the application
| offline source base.

Where is the specific risk[1] in that if you can separate the loader
from the execution engine[2]?


[1] that is, some implication going beyond what cross-site scripting is
    capable of in a modern Ajax online application
[2] i.e. you will be forced to load the most recent version of the code
    off the site when online
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Denis Jedig
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