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.

  • kevincoxEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t this exactly what is happening? It says it blocked the load.

    I’m pretty sure this did work in the past, but this was quite a while ago. IIRC at one point you could load it but it would be protected by CORS so you couldn’t look at the response. But these days it is completely blocked and file: is very restricted.