Medium Severity

Open redirect: Newslit.co

Description

Detects inbound messages containing links that abuse the newslit.co email redirect service, where the redirect destination (query parameter 'u') does not point back to newslit.co itself. Excludes messages from newslit.co or other highly trusted sender domains that pass DMARC authentication.

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Sublime Security
Created Oct 9th, 2026 • Last updated Oct 9th, 2026
Source
type.inbound
and any(body.links,
        .href_url.domain.root_domain == "newslit.co"
        and strings.istarts_with(.href_url.path, '/email/redirect/')
        and length(.href_url.query_params_decoded["u"]) > 0
        // make sure it's not redirecting back to newslit.co
        and not any(.href_url.query_params_decoded["u"],
                    strings.parse_url(.).domain.root_domain == "newslit.co"
        )
)
and not (
  sender.email.domain.root_domain == "newslit.co"
  and coalesce(headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass, false)
)
// negate highly trusted sender domains unless they fail DMARC authentication
and not (
  sender.email.domain.root_domain in $high_trust_sender_root_domains
  and coalesce(headers.auth_summary.dmarc.pass, false)
)
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