full-disclosure - Re: Google Accounts Security Vulnerability

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Message-ID: <00e101cd438c$b0cf9910$126ecb30$@emitcode.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:32:58 -0700
From: "Michael J. Gray" <mgray@...tcode.com>
To: "'Kyle Creyts'" <kyle.creyts@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Google Accounts Security Vulnerability

I'm glad Google took the report so seriously and corrected the problem
before anyone could do anything scary with it. Oh wait...

Thanks for the link Kyle.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Creyts [mailto:kyle.creyts@...il.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:58 AM
To: Michael J. Gray
Cc: Jann Horn; full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Google Accounts Security Vulnerability

from full-disclosure to in-the-wild in less than 3 weeks
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2012-May/086850.html
to http://share.cloudflare.com/3g1X141s2s3J2G2Z0e0O

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Kyle Creyts <kyle.creyts@...il.com> wrote:
> Creating test accounts and reproducing this bug sounds like a 
> responsible thing to do.
>
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Michael J. Gray <mgray@...tcode.com>
wrote:
>> That was a bit ambiguous and I apologize for that. I meant that I had 
>> reproduced the issue several times, not created test accounts. I'm 
>> willing to bet it's not just a few accounts being affected.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jann Horn [mailto:jannhorn@...glemail.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 4:39 AM
>> To: Michael J. Gray
>> Cc: 'Thor (Hammer of God)'; 'Dan Kaminsky'; 
>> full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
>> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Google Accounts Security Vulnerability
>>
>> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:04:43PM -0700, Michael J. Gray wrote:
>>> On why I don't want to provide my email address to Google:
>>>
>>> It's a different email address which I don't want associated with 
>>> this email address for various reasons. That is why I am not going 
>>> to provide
>> it.
>>>
>>> Your assumption that it's a simple piece of information and requires 
>>> no effort to give out is correct, but the impact of the association 
>>> is unwanted.
>>
>> Sounds reasonable.
>>
>>
>>> The fact that Google can create a test account and reproduce the 
>>> issue (as I have now done several times) tells me that they want the 
>>> account information for some other purpose or that they're just being
lazy.
>>
>> So, you now have a test account that doesn't reveal any secrets about 
>> you and which is affected... so you could surely give Google the name 
>> of that one?
>>
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>
> --
> Kyle Creyts
>
> Information Assurance Professional
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