Re: Facebook name + photo extraction using 'Forgot Password' page

[Javier Bassi <javierbassi () gmail com>]

Did you reported this? Apparently reset.php has been fixed.
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3637/screenshotjm.png

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Rishabh Singla
<rishabhsingla () rishabhsingla com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is with reference to the post by Mr. Atul Agarwal dated 11-Aug-10, and posted here 
> (http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Aug/130), in which Mr. Atul describes how a spammer might enter email 
> addresses and extract the names (and photos) from Facebook accounts registered against those email IDs. Mr. Atul also 
> mentions that this technique can be used to validate email addresses in one's possession.
>
> Would like to point out that another way to harness this information is through Facebook's "Forgot your password?" 
> page (located at http://www.facebook.com/reset.php). By entering an email address on this webpage, a user's name, a 
> photo and possibly a snippet of text is displayed (assuming a Facebook user exists against this email ID).
>
> I came across this on 6-Jun-10, and posted the same on my blog on 7-Jun-10. You might want to read the details on my 
> blog (http://blog.rishabhsingla.com/2010/06/facebooks-reset-password-page-has.html).
>
> Rishabh Singla
> http://blog.rishabhsingla.com/
> _______________________________________________
> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/