Re: [Full-disclosure] Google / GMail bug, all accounts vulnerable

["Andrew A" <gluttony@xxxxxxxxx>]

PS-- Have you managed to get hired in an actual security position yet or are
you running around San Francisco begging for scraps from our tables?

PPS-- Namedropping the head of a project you plagiarized from in your cover
letter is not good policy. Especially in this industry. Its a smaller world
than most, and now you're fucking blackballed buddy. You'll work as desktop
support at FOX forever.

On Dec 12, 2007 12:01 PM, Andrew A <gluttony@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Actually, the suggested prevention tactic is to create a post variable in
> your form of type "hidden" with a securely generated one-time ticket that an
> attacker would not be able to scrape without performing an xmlhttp call,
> therefore signalling a (real) security problem with the app in question.
> Requiring the user to re-input their login credentials for every database
> write would be absolutely ridiculous from both a design and security
> perspective.
>
> But then again, you must know all this with your extensive experience in
> web app security and development.
>
>
> On Dec 12, 2007 9:31 AM, Kristian Erik Hermansen 
> <kristian.hermansen@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 12, 2007 3:20 AM, ad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
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> > > ridiculous advisories are generating ridiculous replies that's well
> > > known and you figured it out.
> >
> > The data is all there.  So, the trick is how to utilize CSRF to
> > influence a large number of users to make requests which disrupt,
> > taint, or modify their accounts on popular services.  In the example,
> > I point the favicon.ico object as a 301 redirect to a GMail URI.
> > Since the favicon.ico object, for some reason, influences the account
> > even without revisiting the website again, the GMail account is again
> > influenced any time you click a tab.  It is an interesting finding,
> > and not one that I have heard ever publicly stated.  Correct me if I
> > am wrong here, but why would the favicon.ico object be requested every
> > time you merely click on a tab?  And does this only happen in FF, or
> > IE as well?   What other browser's exhibit this behavior and/or is it
> > supposed to be this way?
> >
> > However, in addition to all this, CSRF is getting to be more
> > dangerous.  Major sites are not protecting against a wide range of
> > attacks.  The suggested prevention tactic is to ask for a password
> > upon any account modifications.  However, this does not always seem to
> > be implemented.  Too, many requests can cause distress to a user which
> > do not necessarily modify their accounts.  For instance, it is
> > possible to taint the credibility of a remote user as well.  Say you
> > could inject searches on Youtube for 'kiddie porn', or make Google
> > requests for 'how to murder your wife'.  All of these are possible
> > attacks, frightening, and how would they be prevented?  This is
> > becoming a large issue, and why I wrote up the PoC for the specific
> > Google / GMail case.  It is possible that these type of attacks could
> > perhaps be used to incriminate someone in court based on secondary
> > evidence, if they were suspected of say, murdering their wife.  The
> > user's search history on Google have been subpoenaed before, and
> > injecting requests into someone's search history is frightening and
> > definitely needs to be addressed, don't you think?  The worst part
> > about all of this is that there doesn't seem to be a viable solution
> > at the moment, which is why everyone should start thinking about the
> > problems now.  There are some great papers which describe a few
> > methods, but one demonstrating the implications is still missing...
> > --
> > Kristian Erik Hermansen
> > "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
> >
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