Public bug reported:
How to reproduce:
1) Install an app which uses online accounts.
2) Uninstall it.
3) Reinstall the application OR ANOTHER APP WITH THE SAME NAMESPACE and it will
still be able to access the online account.
I could see this being used for phishing when the user is asked to manually
install a click package with the same namespace as another app, which would
then allow bad entities to have access to the online accounts of the original
app.
It could either be presented as a completely seperate app when the user has
removed the original one or as an "official version" by the people doing the
phishing.
Therefore, I vote for removing account information from apps when they
are uninstalled.
** Affects: ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1417261
Title:
On app removal, account access permissions persist
Status in ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
How to reproduce:
1) Install an app which uses online accounts.
2) Uninstall it.
3) Reinstall the application OR ANOTHER APP WITH THE SAME NAMESPACE and it
will still be able to access the online account.
I could see this being used for phishing when the user is asked to manually
install a click package with the same namespace as another app, which would
then allow bad entities to have access to the online accounts of the original
app.
It could either be presented as a completely seperate app when the user has
removed the original one or as an "official version" by the people doing the
phishing.
Therefore, I vote for removing account information from apps when they
are uninstalled.
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