Cloudflare: Threat control information leak

The information displayed on the threat control page is retrieved using AJAX calls to the API, however the access token atok which is sent along with the requests is not checked by the receiving end. In addition, a callback function name can be supplied to the API. Combined, these factors allow a...

Coinbase: Coinbase Android Application - Bitcoin Wallet Leaks OAuth Response Code

Hi, There's a simple bug here, the Coinbase Android App. "BitCoin Wallet" leaks the OAuth Response Code which can be obtained using adb logcat -s Coinbase command line for testing, and any Android application on the same phone can read the response code for the user by reading the logs. As of now...

Hacking Facebook User 'Access Token' with Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Facebook has several security measures to protect users' account, such as a user "access token" is granted to the Facebook application like Candy Crush Saga, Lexulous Word Game, when the user authorizes it, it provides temporary and secure access to Facebook APIs. To make this possible, users hav...

Five OAuth Bugs Lead to Github Hack

A Russian security researcher was able to take five low severity OAuth bugs in the coding site Github and string them together to create what he calls a “simple but high severity exploit” that gave him unfettered access to users’ private repositories. Bangkok-based researcher Egor Homakov –...

Design/Logic Flaw

The json rendering functionality in the Context module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-3.2 and 7.x-3.x before 7.x-3.0 for Drupal uses Drupal's token scheme to restrict access to blocks, which makes it easier for remote authenticated users to guess the access token for a block by leveraging the token from a...

CVE-2013-4445

The CVE affects Drupal Context module: 6.x-2.x before 6.x-3.2 and 7.x-3.x before 7.x-3.0. The issue is that the module uses Drupal’s token scheme to restrict access to the json rendering of a block, and this token-based control is not designed for intra-session protection. This allows remote auth...

omniauth-facebook Gem for Ruby Insecure Access Token Handling Authentication Bypass

omniauth-facebook Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is due to the application supporting passing the access token via the URL. This may allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and authenticate as another user...

Pinterest Closes Hole That Allowed Anyone to View User's Email Address

A security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in Pinterest, the rapidly growing social network, that enables an attacker who knows a target’s username or user ID to discover that user’s email address. The bug is quite simple to exploit and could give an ambitious attacker a huge target lis...

Pinterest Exploit exposes user information of 70 Million accounts

Security researcher Dan Melamed has found a serious Pinterest Exploit that exposed user's information of over 70 Million accounts. The security researcher Dan Melamed has found a Critical Pinterest Exploit that compromised the privacy of over 70 Million Users, the flaw allows hackers to view the...

IBM WebSphere information leakage

Access token inside URL...

Hacking Instagram Accounts using OAuth vulnerability

'Nir Goldshlager' known as Facebook hacker and founder of Break Security , who reported many critical bugs in Facebook OAuth mechanism in past few months, today disclose a critical vulnerability in Instagram Oauth that allow an attacker to hack any account. Succesful hack allows attacker to acces...

Another way to hack Facebook accounts using OAuth vulnerability

In recent few months White hat Hacker ,'Nir Goldshlager' reported many critical bugs in Facebook OAuth mechanism, that allowed an attacker to hijack any Facebook account without user's interaction. Another hacker, 'Amine Cherrai' reported a new Facebook OAuth flaw, whose exploitation is actually...

Skype, Dropbox Patch Critical Facebook Authentication Bugs

UPDATE Popular applications Skype and Dropbox fixed holes in their websites this week that could have allowed an attacker to gain control of users’ Facebook accounts. In what’s technically being referred to as an “open direct vulnerability,” both applications failed to validate sites before sendi...

URL Redirection flaw in Facebook apps push OAuth vulnerability again in action

In earlier posts, our Facebook hacker 'Nir Goldshlager' exposed two serious Facebook oAuth Flaws. One, Hacking a Facebook account even without the user installing an application on their account and second, various ways to bypassing the regex protection in Facebook OAuth. This time, Nir illustrat...

Уязвимость серверов mail.com

Слабая схема генерации маркетра доступа позволяет подменить маркер доступа получив доступ к почте и настройками другого пользователя на любых почтовых серверах использующих П/О от mail.com...