Re: Orange Spain disclosing user phone number

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

I'm sure this has been the source of many targeted advertising SMS's and calls during the last years.

And probably many advertisers are digging the logs now:
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security/2010/08/31/orange-spain-reveals-phone-numbers-researcher-40089965/

Juha-Matti

B1towel [ben () b1towel com] kirjoitti: 
> It would be funny to see advertisers send targeted SMS ads using this. I bet that the advertisers of web sites that 
> participate in iframe ads would also get this information, assuming the Phone would load up iframe ads. 
>
> I think the provider should fix this, because if someone developed an exploit similar to the one that was able to 
> compromise the iPhone a while back just by sending a maliciously formed SMS message, your phone could be compromised 
> just by going to a website where this information is sent to the web server.
>
> I know this is pretty obvious, just my 2 cents.
>
> On Aug 30, 2010, at 7:00 AM, full-disclosure-request () lists grok org uk wrote:
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:09:50 +0200
> > From: "xufi ." <xufxuf () gmail com>
> > Subject: [Full-disclosure] Orange Spain disclosing user phone number
> > To: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
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> >     <AANLkTinKy8UsAkPd0gg5UoSESdfeNE8bhjAA-OepKO1Q () mail gmail com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> > Hi,
> > Doing an assessment on mobile GWs I found that Orange Spain is adding
> > the user MSISDN in any HTTP request sent in it?s network. That means
> > that is really simple to get the user phone number from a Orange Spain
> > user. On one hand, I saw that Orange Spain uses the header
> > x-up-calling-line-id to add a user temporary ID that changes every 24h
> > but I also found that in any HTTP request they will add the user phone
> > number in the header X-Network-info. In particular the HTTP header
> > looks like as follow:
> >
> > X-Network-info: CSD,34xxxxxxxxx,unsecured
> >
> > where xxxxxxxxx is the user MSISDN

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