full-disclosure - Re: Facebook name extraction based on email/wrong password + POC

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:22:45 -0700
From: no exit <fd.noexit@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Facebook name extraction based on email/wrong
 password + POC

Facebook also has a "feature" that will search your AIM or MSN IM
buddy lists for other Facebook users. The search result will present
you a list of user's default profile photos, and their full real name.

After you run this search Facebook will automatically save your IM
screen name/account on your Facebook profile.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:13 PM, werew01f <hack.werew01f@...il.com> wrote:
> Don't seems to work on my system. No user name or picture was displayed.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Atul Agarwal <atul@...fence.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Sometime back, I noticed a strange problem with Facebook, I had
>> accidentally entered wrong password in Facebook, and it showed my first and
>> last name with profile picture, along with the password incorrect message. I
>> thought that the fact that it was showing the name had something to do with
>> cookies stored, so I tried other email id's, and it was the same. I wondered
>> over the possibilities, and wrote a POC tool to test it.
>>
>> This script extracts the First and Last Name (provided by the users when
>> they sign up for Facebook). Facebook is kind enough to return the name even
>> if the supplied email/password combination is wrong. Further more,it also
>> gives out the profile picture (this script does not harvest it, but its easy
>> to add that too). Facebook users have no control over this, as this works
>> even when you have set all privacy settings properly. Harvesting this data
>> is very easy, as it can be easily bypassed by using a bunch of proxies.
>>
>> As Facebook is so popular, some implications -
>>
>> 1) Someone has a list of email address that he has no clue about. He can
>> feed them to Facebook one by one (or in a list, using a script like this)
>> and chances are that he'll get more than 50% hits. Useful for phishing
>> attacks (People will get more convinced when they see their *real* names).
>>
>> 2) One can generate random email addresses, and *verify* their existence .
>> Hint: You can generate emails using (common names + a corporate domain), and
>> check them against Facebook. Might come handy in a Pentest.
>>
>> Rest is only left up to one's imagination.
>>
>> Find the POC script attached.
>>
>> PS: I did not report this, as I am unsure on what to call it, a "bug",
>> "vuln" or a "feature".
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Atul Agarwal
>> Secfence Technologies
>> www.secfence.com
>>
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