Re: GMail complete anonymity possible via IPv6

[Atul Agarwal <atul () secfence com>]

Interesting find.

Not directly related but, GMail also shows no activity logs whatsoever (does
not matter its IPv4/IPv6) if one tries to import contacts from a GMail
account.

Could be intentional by Google, as lots of websites import contacts
(Facebook, Linkedin etc.)  But anyone with evil intentions could have the
complete contact list using any of the freely available contact importer
script (http://svetlozar.net/page/Import-Gmail-Addresses.html should work
fine), and the victim wont have a clue.


Thanks,
Atul Agarwal
Secfence Technologies
www.secfence.com



On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Harry Strongburg <harry.fd () harry lu> wrote:

> If a user connects to an account using gmail.com in IPv6, the "last
> account activity" feature will say "Unknown" as the IP address.
>
> Screenshot example:
> imgur: http://i.imgur.com/l4lFp.png
> Local mirror: http://harry.lu/files/secret/gmailipv6.png
> All "Unknown" entries in the screenshot are IPv6 connections, using a gmail
> username no one else knows of (just a garbage account I made to test this
> out), with a secure password (hence I am positive that there were no
> connections made other than mine). Erased entries in the screenshot are IPv4
> addresses that I manually censored.
>
> 2001:4860:b009::53 is the current IPv6 address for gmail.com. It's an AAAA
> record on the domain, but I am posting it here if Google goes the easy route
> and just deletes the DNS entry.
>
> This should be a major security concern for Google and all Google/GMail
> users. With this bug, any user can connect to GMail using IPv6, access your
> account, and you will not be sure if it was an accidental IPv6 connection
> you did, or if someone had access to your account. If you casually use IPv6,
> you will be unable to tell if one of the "Unknown" connections were from
> your IPv6 range, or a remote intruder's.
>
> Stay classy, Google.
>
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