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From: mbassett at omaha.com (Bassett, Mark)
Subject: TinyURL

Anyone want an Asus Motherboard from newegg? :)

http://www.tinyurl/boob

Mark Bassett
Network Administrator
World media company
Omaha.com
402-898-2079

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel R. Helgeson [mailto:joel@...geson.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:19 AM
To: full-disclosure@...sys.com
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] TinyURL

This is an information leak rather than a real vulnerability. I thought
it
might be of interest to others...

www.tinyurl.com is a website that will convert a long url to a short
one. If
you want to email a link to say, driving directions on mapquest, the url
is
rather long and will get broken up. Tinyurl will store that long link,
and
give you a short one that looks like: http://tinyurl.com/abcd

It appears that the last four letters are incremented one letter at a
time,
so my URL may be aaaa, then aaab, and so forth.
If people are using the tiny URL service to pass along URL's to
sensitive
information, it is easy to guess these URL's.

I recently sent an email to someone with a tinyurl, and decided to
change
one character in the url and came across a link to a kiddie porn site...
http://tinyurl.com/stab

Its a coincidence that stab is a word, but its just a few characters off
from my URL, staa & stac are also valid URL's.

The TinyURL service should use a randomly created string, rather than
one
that is incremented by one character.  Regardless, users of this service
could have the information they intend to share with others viewed by
anyone
that types in the string.

Thoughts?

Joel R. Helgeson
Director of Networking & Security Services
SymetriQ Corporation

"Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and
he'll
be warm for the rest of his life."

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