“Altering the uid parameter and specifying another username shouldn’t have an effect, since I’m logged in and my session is maintained through my cookies,” Westergren wrote in an advisory. The FiOS API flaw, actually contained in the application’s API, allowed any account to be accessed by manipulating user identification numbers in web requests, giving attackers ability to read individual messages from a person’s Verizon inbox.
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One-after-one three serious zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 7 and 8.1 were disclosed by Google’s security team before Microsoft planned to patch them. Microsoft could learn a lot more from Verizon, as Microsoft wasn’t able to fix the security flaws in its software reported by Google’s Project Zero team even after a three-month-long time period provided to the company. That’s precisely how it should be done - quickly and efficiently. The telecom giant acknowledged the researcher of the notification the same day and issued a fix on Friday, just two days after the vulnerability was disclosed. Westergren took time to put together a proof-of-concept showing serious cause for concern, and then reported it to Verizon. The issue was discovered while analyzing traffic generated by the Android version of My FiOS, which is used for account management, email and scheduling video recordings. The FiOS API flaw was discovered by XDA senior software developer Randy Westergren on January 14, 2015, when he found that it was possible to not only read the contents of other users’ inboxes, but also send message on their behalf. Verizon FiOS app vulnerability Exposes 5 MILLION Customers’ Email AddressesĪ critical vulnerability discovered in Verizon’s FiOS mobile application allowed an attacker to access the email account of any Verizon customer with relative ease, leaving almost five million user accounts of Verizon’s FiOS application at risk.
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