Re: TrueCaller Vulnerability Allows Changing Users Details

["Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor () hammerofgod com>]

You can still submit fake data by just adding fake contacts.  And of course, the real privacy issue here is that you 
are sharing your freaking address book with the world.  Frankly, I’m amazed anyone would even think about doing that.

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Timothy “Thor”  Mullen
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From: full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces () lists grok org uk] On Behalf Of 
Kuwait WhiteHat
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 6:30 AM
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com; full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
Subject: [Full-disclosure] TrueCaller Vulnerability Allows Changing Users Details


TrueCaller – worldwide number search and spam filter, a top iPhone application in many countries, enables users to 
search half a billion phone numbers worldwide and much more.

The application allows users to search numbers if and only if the user enables Enhanced Search feature. When enabled, 
the user is warned that his contacts will be shared with other users to search and his address book is sent to 
TrueCaller database. This process is done by sending the following HTTP “cleartext” request:

post_contact_data=[{"REV":"","FN":"ContactName","TEL_CELL":["MobileNumber"],”TCBID”:”Number“,”FID”:”Number“,”TEL_WORK”:[Number],”TEL_HOME”:[],”CONTACT_ID”:”3619″,”LID”:”"}

From a security point of view, this is a bad security behavior and may lead to one of the following situations:
·         Privacy Issues
·         Fake Data
·         Enabling Enhanced Search features without having to share user’s Address Book



Advisory Timeline

28/Apr/2012 – First contact: Vulnerability details sent
29/Apr/2012 – Response received: Asked for more details
29/Apr/2012 – Second Contact: More details provided and cleared TrueCaller doubts
30/Apr/2012 – Vulnerability Confirmed: TrueCaller started working on a fix
01/May/2012 – Vulnerability Fixed: Fix submitted to Apple for approval
17/May/2012 – New Version Released: Fix approved by Apple and released
01/Jun/2012  - Vulnerability Released.

Details and more information here:
http://q8whitehat.org/truecaller-vulnerability-allows-changing-users-name/

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