full-disclosure - [FD] ES File Explorer android app snoops data to China Unicom network via insecure HTTP

Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:07:26 +0000
From: seclists@...il.tg
To: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: [FD] ES File Explorer android app snoops data to China Unicom
 network via insecure HTTP

Hi,

With the ES File Explorer android app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop)) installed on my phone, when I monitored the network connections on my phone via the Network Connections app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antispycell.connmonitor (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antispycell.connmonitor)), I found that it frequently transferred data to an IP address (123.125.114.8) on the Chinese state owned China Unicom network (https://www.whois.com/whois/123.125.114.8 (https://www.whois.com/whois/123.125.114.8)) via insecure HTTP connection. This is a privacy risk, as anyone can monitor the data exchanged over this unencrypted link & also constant data exchange with this IP address raises spying concerns. 

Attached is a screenshot of the Network Connections app showing the insecure HTTP connection used by the ES File Explorer app.

Thanks.

Download attachment "Screenshot_20170429-230000.png" of type "image/png" (449535 bytes)

_______________________________________________
Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list
https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure
Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives