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Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This affects Signal too

An issue with Cloudflare allows an attacker to find which Cloudflare data center a messaging app used to cache an image, meaning an attacker can obtain the approximate location of Signal, Discord, Twitter/X, and likely other chat app users. In some cases an attacker only needs to send an image across the app, with the target not clicking it, to obtain their location.

https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117?ref=404media.co

Signal, an open-source encrypted messaging service, is widely used by journalists and activists for its privacy features. Internally, the app utilizes two CDNs for serving content: cdn.signal.org (powered by CloudFront) for profile avatars and cdn2.signal.org (powered by Cloudflare) for message attachments.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Great point. The range shown in the article doesn't seem to be that big of a deal for me, but I suppose it could matter for some situations.