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Intercom users can be impersonated

Moderate
tomakehurst published GHSA-gmvx-qhcw-9m9w Jan 30, 2024

Package

No package listed

Affected versions

< 2023-12-06

Patched versions

>= 2023-12-06

Description

Summary

Messages in the app.wiremock.cloud live chat can be viewed or sent using a forged email address.

Details

Identify verification is not enabled in your Intercom account.

PoC

In this example I'm using an intercepting proxy called Burp Suite. But you could also use Chrome developer tools to copy requests as a curl command and manipulate them.

  1. Login to app.wiremock.cloud and send a message in Intercom
  2. In Burp Suite, look for a request to https://api-iam.intercom.io/messenger/web/conversations and send it to the repeater tool
  3. Change the user_data parameter to {"email":"[email protected]"}
  4. Send the request. You will see all the messages sent by Tom in the live chat.

Screenshot 2023-11-07 at 11 06 36

Impact

Potentially confidential messages can be viewed, users can be impersonated in messages.

Mitigation

Intercom's identity verification feature was enabled and user details are now sent to Intercom with an HMAC hash generated by WireMock Cloud's backend, ensuring they haven't been tampered with.

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits