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Application Security

A true story of mobile device geolocation

TL;DR During the monthly research activity, in accordance with the relative Respnsible Disclosure program, we found and went in depth with an interesting security issue allowing geolocation of mobile devices using TIM, an Italian communication provider. A malicious user could find the TIM customers geo-position by forcing the approval mechanism to allow the geopositional tracking. By […]

Application Security

Rusty Joomla RCE

Introduction During one of our research activities, we discovered an undisclosed PHP Object Injection on Joomla CMS from the release 3.0.0 to the 3.4.6 (releases from 2012 to December 2015) that leads to Remote Code Execution.A PHP Object Injection was discovered in the wild and patched in the 3.4.5 version (CVE-2015-8562), however, this vulnerability depends also a lot on […]

Application Security

Prestashop <= 1.7.6.0 RC 1 - Insecure Direct Object Reference

During a security assessment, we found an Insecure Direct Object Reference on Prestashop. In particular, the finding could allow an attacker to leak personal information such as first name, last name, phone number, shipping and invoice address. This vulnerability affects all versions before v1.7.6.0 RC2 and was referred as BUG FIX #14444 in the Changelog. (changelog_1.7.6.0-rc2.txt) The vulnerability […]

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Responsible disclosure – Reflected XSS on hireon.amazon.com

On March 13th, by using dnsrecon (https://github.com/darkoperator/dnsrecon) and a huge wordlist, I came across with an Amazon domain (hireon.amazon.com) with a Reflected XSS. Usually I don’t use to write an article for an XSS vulnerability, but I would share a trick I discovered during this analysis. Looking for a not existent resource, the following error […]

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Facebook chat / dashboard content injection

I often wondered how link generation functionality is implemented by major social network applications and, more specifically, the preview generation. Some time ago a friend of mine was spear-phished with a message through the Facebook chat, this happened before Facebook patched the chat application, allowing to exchange of messages only between people connected as friends. […]

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