[JumpCrisscross]

> $2,000 is a tiny fraction of what this bug is worth

The Browser Company raises $50mm at a $550mm post-money valuation in March [1]. They’ve raised $125mm altogether.

Unless they’re absolute asshats, they’ll increase the bug payout. But people act truly when they don’t think they’re being watched—a vulnerability of this magnitude was worth $2k to this company. That’s…eyebrow raising.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/the-browser-company-raises...

[shuckles]

"We will let anyone run arbitrary JavaScript on all your web pages if you send them a referral link" is surely a 6-7 figure vulnerability for a web browser. That this vulnerability was discoverable using about two steps of analysis tools suggests many more issues are in the product.

[rafram]

Not just that - seems like it allowed running privileged JavaScript (full access to your system) on the preferences page as well.

[voiceblue]

It is very strange to me that their attitude is "no one was impacted" and this is "hypothetical". Any serious company would immediately consider this to be a case where everyone was impacted! This is like coming home to the worst neighborhood on the planet to find your door wide open, and immediately putting on a blindfold so you can continue to pretend nothing's changed.

[DecoySalamander]

Since everything is stored in their DB, they supposedly can audit logs and sources for boosts themselves to confirm if anyone was actually impacted.

[voiceblue]

Can you explain? How are they able to check whether someone did a quick “in and out” keylogger or cookie extraction? I doubt they can, because I doubt they store every request (that would go against what they claim for privacy) and I also doubt their DB backup happens on such a high frequency that they could catch this (e.g. minute-to-minute).

So…how? Are you claiming they have oodles of logs and a perfect dork* to find suspicious JavaScript? If they had the latter wouldn’t they already be using it for security?

If you have some method that works do tell.

* https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/what-is-dork_600025

[Cpoll]

I don't think you're using "dorking" correctly here, since web crawlers aren't anywhere in the picture. Server log queries aren't "dorks." Besides, if you can reproduce the issue and _if_ it's somehow logged in the database, it's usually not too hard to figure out how to query for other occurrences.

With that said, I think you're probably right. I doubt Firebase audit logs contain update contents, and based on the bug report, your "in and out" proposal is as simple as:

firebase.collection("boosts").where("creatorID", "==", "attackers_user_id").update({"creatorId": "victims_user_id" });

sleep(time);

firebase.collection("boosts").where("creatorID", "==", "victims_user_id").update({"creatorId": "attackers_user_id" });

(okay, not exactly, because this would also set the ownership of the victim's legitimate Boosts, but the actual code isn't much more difficult).

[cutemonster]

They have more users than what I could have guessed:

> As of July 2023, The Browser Company has 100,000+ users

https://www.boringbusinessnerd.com/startups/the-browser-comp....

[behringer]

It doesn't matter what bug bounty pay pay. If it was 200k people would say it's not enough.