A vulnerability was found in Facebook Poke on iOS (Social Network Software) (affected version not known). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file Poke/Library/Caches/FBStore/315_14_/MediaCache of the component Media Cache. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality.

The weakness was released 12/28/2012 by Katie Notopoulos with BuzzFeed as How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever as not defined article (Website). The advisory is available at buzzfeed.com. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by Katie Notopoulos and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at buzzfeed.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

techcrunch.com is providing further details. Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 7225.

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• Social Network Software

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• Facebook

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• Poke

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• free

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