A Flaw in Steam Browser Protocol has been reported by the Italian Researchers Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante from “ReVuln”.
What is Steam Browser?
Stream is a Popular online distribution platform which is basically used as a gaming platform on order to run, install and uninstall games, backup files, connect to servers and many more and it is used by 54 Million Users.
This is being said that it is possible to invoke this quietly Steam URL from the Safari, Maxthon and Firefox and all the browsers based on the Mozilla engine.
The researchers demonstrated how users on the massive Source game engine, which hosts games like Half-Life and Counterstrike, could be attacked.
In proof of concept which involves the steam browser, attackers used some Malicious YouTube links within Steam user profiles to bait users, How then user phished when he/she wish to leave comments explained byDarren Pauli.
