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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:33:11 -0500 From: Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile@...il.com> To: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx> Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk> Subject: Re: Google vulnerabilities with PoC If you were evil, you could upload huge blobs and just take up space on the google servers. Who knows what will happen if you upload a couple hundred gigs of files. They dont disappear, they are just unretrievable afaict. It is a security risk in the sense that untrusted data is being persisted *somewhere*. Upload a couple terabytes, cause a DoS because some hdd in the DC fills up. Who knows. Sent from a computer On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx> wrote: >> The only reasonable way to 'exploit' the bug is using youtube as a >> "personal storage" uploading non-video files to your own profile: so what? > > That would require a way to retrieve the stored data, which - as I > understand - isn't possible here (although the report seems a bit > hard-to-parse). From what I recall, you can just upload a blob of data > and essentially see it disappear. > > We do have quite a few services where you can legitimately upload and > share nearly-arbitrary content, though. Google Drive is a good > example. > > /mz > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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