full-disclosure - Re: Facebook name + photo extraction using 'Forgot Password' page

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:21:44 -0300
From: Javier Bassi <javierbassi@...il.com>
To: Rishabh Singla <rishabhsingla@...habhsingla.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Facebook name + photo extraction using
 'Forgot Password' page

Did you reported this? Apparently reset.php has been fixed.
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3637/screenshotjm.png

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Rishabh Singla
<rishabhsingla@...habhsingla.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is with reference to the post by Mr. Atul Agarwal dated 11-Aug-10, and posted here (http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Aug/130), in which Mr. Atul describes how a spammer might enter email addresses and extract the names (and photos) from Facebook accounts registered against those email IDs. Mr. Atul also mentions that this technique can be used to validate email addresses in one's possession.
>
> Would like to point out that another way to harness this information is through Facebook's "Forgot your password?" page (located at http://www.facebook.com/reset.php). By entering an email address on this webpage, a user's name, a photo and possibly a snippet of text is displayed (assuming a Facebook user exists against this email ID).
>
> I came across this on 6-Jun-10, and posted the same on my blog on 7-Jun-10. You might want to read the details on my blog (http://blog.rishabhsingla.com/2010/06/facebooks-reset-password-page-has.html).
>
> Rishabh Singla
> http://blog.rishabhsingla.com/
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