Orkut Email Address Disclosure Vulnerability

Orkut Email Address Disclosure Vulnerability

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XDisclose Advisory : XD*000*7
Vulnerability Discovered: November *0th 2006
Advisory Released : December 8th 2006
****** : Rajesh Sethumadhavan

Class : Information Disclosure
Severity : Highly Critical
Solution Status : Unpatched
Vendor : Google Inc
Vendor Website : [url]http://www.orkut.com[/url]
Affected applications : Orkut Services
Affected Platform : All

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Overview:
Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named
after its creator, Orkut Büyükkökten. It claims to be designed to
help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships with
pictures and messages, and establish new ones by reaching out to
people you've never met before.

Orkut service is vulnerable to email address disclosure vulnerabilities.
Due to this It is possible to get email address of any users in orkut.
This is caused due to improper designing of orkut portal.

Description:
A remote attacker can get the email address of anyone in the orkut as
demonstrated below. The victim interaction is not required at all.

Demonstration:
Note: Demonstration leads to email address information disclosure

- Login to your orkut account
- Add any user as your friend (Person you want to get email address)
- Click 'friends' tab
- Click 'open friend requests' tab
- Click edit button the email address of the user will be displayed
as in the screenshot

Same way your can find your friends email address also


Solution:
Orkut can improve their portal design by hiding the users email address


Screenshot:
[url]http://www.xdisclose.com/images/xdorkutemailid.jpg[/url]


Impact:
Successful exploitation allows email address disclosure.


Original Advisory:
[url]http://www.xdisclose.com/XD*000*7.txt[/url]


******s:
Rajesh Sethumadhavan has been ******ed with the discovery of this
vulnerability


Disclaimer:
This entire document is strictly for educational, testing and
demonstrating purpose only. Modification use and/or publishing this
information is entirely on your own risk. The exploit code is to be
used on your own orkut account. I am not liable for any direct or
indirect damages caused as a result of using the information or
demonstrations provided in any part of this advisory.