Sensitive Data Exposure Due To Insecure Storage Of Profile Image in polonel/trudesk
Reported on
Mar 19th 2022
Description
When the user uploads his profile picture, the uploaded image’s EXIF Geolocation Data does not get stripped. As a result, anyone can get sensitive information of trudesk users like their Geolocation, their Device information like Device Name, Version, Software & Software version used, etc.
Proof of Concept
1.Browse this link:- https://github.com/ianare/exif-samples/blob/master/jpg/gps/DSCN0012.jpg
2.Download the image Upload the picture on your profile and click on save.
3.Now see the path of the uploaded image ( Either by right click on image then copy image address OR right-click, inspect the image, the URL will come in the inspect, edit it as HTML )
4.Then open:- http://exif.regex.info/exif.cgi
5.Then select the image and click on "View Image Data" now you can see the EXIF data.
Video PoC:-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_-lUIFVpC0BrxrviLgO-Kythb-qaBt8a/view?usp=sharing
Impact
This vulnerability impacts all users on trudesk. This vulnerability violates the privacy of a User and shares sensitive information of the user who uploads their profile picture on trudesk.
References
"This vulnerability violates the privacy of a User and shares sensitive information of the user who uploads their profile picture on microweber."
Although the bounty is valid; This project is not microweber.
@maintainer sorry by mistake I have put the microweber name because previously I have reported the same vulnerability to microweber and I use that template to report here forgot to change the name @admin can you edit the name from microweber to trudesk from the description.
Removed microweber references from the report 👍
We can assign a CVE, we just require the GO AHEAD from the maintainer.
@Chris, are you happy for us to assign and publish a CVE for this report?
@admin Maintainer is agree so can you please register a CVE for this report?
CVE assigned! 👍
Once you have confirmed the fix @maintainer, we will be able to go ahead and publish the CVE.
@admin maintainer has confirmed the fix for this report so can you please update the CVE-ID on NVD/mitre
Sorted! 👍
It should be available in the next couple of hours :)