foilChat sign up email PIN confirmation bypass ============================================== https://sintonen.fi/advisories/foilchat-signup-email-pin-confirmation-bypass.txt
Overview -------- foilChat (https://www.foilchat.com/) allows anyone to register with any email address due to a vulnerability. Description ----------- foilChat user names equal to user's email address. At sign up the user is required to provide an email address. The email address is sent a 4 digit PIN code that the user is required to enter to the application to complete the registration. foilChat backend fails to prevent brute force attempts of the PIN code. The attacker can attempt all 10000 different PIN codes until the correct one is found, and then use the correct PIN to complete the registration. Impact ------ The attacker can sign up to foilChat with any email address, bypassing the security model of the application. Notably the user name (email address) is the only way to confirm identity within the application. Details ------- The discovered vulnerabilities, described in more detail below, enable the attack described here in brief. 1. Initiate the sign up procedure in the application with a spoofed email address 2. Brute force the correct PIN code for p in `seq -w 0 9999`; do echo $p; if curl -s -d "email=victim@example.invalid&pin=$p" \ https://api.foilserver.com/v2.4.3/users/check_credentials | grep -q true; then break; fi done 3. Once correct PIN is found, complete the sign up with the PIN code The attacker is now registered with the spoofed email address (user name): https://sintonen.fi/advisories/foilchat-signup-pin-bypass.png Vulnerabilities --------------- 1. CWE-307: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts The foilChat backend fails to restrict the number of 'users/check_credentials' API calls for a given email address. The attacker can try different PIN codes until the correct PIN code is found, and thus bypass the email confirmation. This issue could be fixed in several ways. One way would be to restrict the number of 'users/check_credentials' API calls that can be made. Even better, rather than having a separate 'users/check_credentials' API call at all, the correct PIN should be required for the actual 'users/signup' API call instead. Vulnerable versions ------------------- foilChat confirmed the issue fixed 2018-05-24. Credits ------- The vulnerability was discovered by Harry Sintonen. Timeline -------- 2018.05.10 discovered the vulnerability 2018.05.10 reported the vulnerability via CERT-FI that forwarded it to foilChat security contact 2018.05.24 foilChat reported the vulnerability fixed 2018.05.24 public disclosure of the advisory _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
