Re: ask.fp.o potential account hijacking with facebook oauth

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On 13/02/2014 08:42 μμ, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:52:38 +0200
> Achilleas Pipinellis <axilleaspi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hello there!
>>
>> I bumped into a recent post that describes the way someone could get
>> access to your account using facebook oauth. According to the
>> vulnerability author:
>>
>>> Every website with "Connect Facebook account and log in with it" is
>>> vulnerable to account hijacking.
>>
>> Source:
>> http://homakov.blogspot.gr/2014/01/two-severe-wontfix-vulnerabilities-in.html
>>
>> Facebook will not fix this anytime soon. Should we disable facebook
>> login until this gets resolved?
> 
> So, we discussed this some, and it seems like a pretty complex
> vulnerability. Additionally, ask isn't a particularly sensitive
> application for us. 
> 
> So, we are just going to wait and see right now I think, and if it's
> used against us, reevaluate. 
> 
> Thanks for bringing it up... I sure hope there's a fix at some point. 
> 
> kevin

Yeap, I thought so :)
I just reported it so that you know it's out there.


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