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Message-ID: <4EBA98F3.2010706@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:14:59 +0100
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@...il.com>,
Ross Burton <ross@...ux.intel.com>, Rob Bradford <rob@...ux.intel.com>,
Sandu Adrian <dexter@...t3r01.tk>
Subject: CVE Request -- libsocialweb -- Untrusted connection opened to Twitter
social service without user's approval upon service start via dbus
Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
a security flaw was found in the way the libsocialweb,
a social network data aggregator, performed its initialization
when this service start was initiated by the dbus daemon.
Due to a deficiency in a way the libsocialweb service was
initialized, an untrusted (non-SSL) network connection has
been opened to remote Twitter service servers without explicit
approval of the user, running the libsocialweb service on the
local host. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct
various MITM attacks and potentially alter integrity of the user
account in question.
References:
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752022
Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
Thank you && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
P.S.: This one being on the border a bit (since clear security
consequences of this deficiency not completely investigated),
but in any case it's a bad programming practice to open
untrusted connection to remote servers by default without
particular users' approval (trust boundary crossing).
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