Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team]VULNERLAB:1490
Document Title:
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Grindr Bug Bounty - Denial of Service Vulnerability
References:
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1490
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqc5_IacqXA
Release Date:
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2015-05-05
Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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1490
Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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3.3
Discovery Status:
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Published
Exploitation Technique:
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Remote
Severity Level:
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Low
Technical Details & Description:
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The video demonstrates due to a crowd contest a local and remote denial of service vulnerability in the profile.
The attacker injects multiple termination strings (%00%20%00%20%00) to the Display Name input field of the Edit Profile module.
After the inject the service stored the malicious values as DisplayName. After the inject a random user is processing to click in the profile the
contact information (facebook/twitter). After that the victim wants to copy the link and an internal service corruption occurs thats crashs the mobile app.
The issue is local and remote exploitable.
Vulnerable Module(s):
[+] Edit Profile
Vulnerable Parameter(s): (Input)
[+] Display Name
Affected Module(s):
[+] Contact > Social Network > Copy Link
Credits & Authors:
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Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team]
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