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Chrome's Incognito mode was automatically logged into other sites?

Reported by gil...@gmail.com, Jun 14 2017

Issue description

Dear Security Team,

I wish to report a security bridge bug I had found on Chrome for the PC, when in Incognito mode.

I have been testing one of our websites: www.weddinbook.com in Incognito mode. I have opened a new tab so that no tokens or cache of any sort would be available.

While I was testing my platform, I had another Chrome window open, in which I was logged on to my Gmail and if memory serves - to a Facebook account as well.

When testing the website on the Incognito mode, I clicked a link which was supposed to lead to composing an email. When clicked, it opened a new Incognito tab with Gmail and instead of asking me to log in, it opened my personal Gmail account in "Compose" mode, with full access to my emails and folders. Same happened when I clicked the Facebook link.

To the best of my knowledge, something like that should not occur on Incognito mode, which is why I was trying to bring it to your attention.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

I am attaching a few screenshots I took in the process.

Looking forward to hear back from you.

My kindest personal regards,

Gil

+972-542291140
gili@castle-builders.biz

gili46@gmail.com





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Labels: -Type-Bug-Security -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam Needs-Feedback Type-Bug
Summary: Chrome's Incognito mode was automatically logged into other sites? (was: Security issue with Chrome's Incognito mode)
Issues with Incognito are tracked as privacy bugs and not as security bugs.

Can you please visit chrome://version/ and provide the version information shown at the top of that tab?

I'm not able to reproduce this problem with the stable or Canary versions of Chrome.

The explanation when users report issues like this is that the user has multiple Incognito windows open and does not realize that fact. Incognito windows (perhaps surprisingly) are not isolated from one another, and closing one Incognito window does not end the Incognito session. The "background" Incognito window hangs on to all of the login tokens and when you open a new Incognito window, all of those tokens remain available in that new window. Only when all Incognito windows are closed is the session ended and the login tokens expired.

Comment 2 by gil...@gmail.com, Jun 15 2017

Hello again,

The version is at the bottom of this email.

I completely understand how the Incognito sessions work, which is why we use them for testing.

I had no other Incognito windows open, only a Chrome window, with Gmail logged in.

I guess that what I'm getting at is that as long as another Chrome window (that is not Incognito) is open or another tab (that is Incognito) is open and when on both cases the gmail was used and closed (and possibly a token remained), it signs up automatically to Gmail when clicked, from an Incognito window, when clearly it shouldn't.

Perhaps a closed Gmail tab still makes sense in a way for the token to be kept, but not for a fresh new Incognito window that uses the Gmail token off an regular Chrome window.

Thank you for the prompt reply.

Best always,

Gil




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Executable Path	C:\Users\Castle Builders\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
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Compiler	MSVC 2015 (PGO)
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Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 15 2017

Cc: elawrence@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "elawrence@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
<< Perhaps a closed Gmail tab still makes sense in a way for the token to be kept, but not for a fresh new Incognito window that uses the Gmail token off an regular Chrome window.>>

That would, indeed, be a bug, however I'm not able to reproduce this. 

If you close all Chrome instances, then start a new regular mode instance, log it into Gmail, and then start a new incognito window, are you able to reproduce the issue originally reported?
Labels: Needs-Milestone

Comment 6 by gil...@gmail.com, Jun 19 2017

Hi again,

<< If you close all Chrome instances, then start a new regular mode instance, log it into Gmail, and then start a new incognito window, are you able to reproduce the issue originally reported >>

That's exactly what had happened. I am not sure if it occurred specifically via the website we have created and method it was used in, but the fact of the matter remains. 

We have created a web app for creating apps and have recently adapted it to the Wedding market in order to allow couples to create interactive wedding albums with videos, music, photos, special features, etc. and convert them into native apps for the Android, iPhone and iPad. The website I am referring to is www.weddinbook.com. If you want, I can guide you through the steps. 

Essentially, you need to create an account, go to "Create an Album," go through the process of the actual creating by using the Wizard, and then go to "Add Features" - add an Email address and Facebook address, click the Preview to view your Album, and then click the Email / Facebook icons which would open a new tab with the logged in Gmail account (assuming it was already logged into from a regular Chrome window)

Best always,

Gil

Cc: pnangunoori@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Tested on Chrome Stable #59.0.3071.115 and Canary #61.0.3148.0 on Windows 10, and issue is not reproducible. Attached the screen cast for reference (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Nz6WzbhmLRSjltdTQyU20wMW8).
 
Followed the below steps:
 
1. Launched chrome and logged through Google account in www.weddinbook.com
2. Created an Album with links to Facebook (logged into Facebook while linking).
3. Previewed the Wedding Album.
4. Opened Incognito Window.
Observations:
1. User had to logged into the www.weddinbook.com again.
2. User had to login to Facebook again to navigate to the link provided earlier.
 
@gili -- Could you please try by removing the extensions and creating a new profile to verify if the issue still persists.
 
Please let us know if we have missed anything.
 
Thanks in advance.

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Cc: rhalavati@chromium.org
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Can you still reproduce the error?
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
As there is no action on this issue for long time closing this issue. Request you to update your Chrome to latest #66.0.3359.181 and verify. Feel free to file a new issue if the issue is still reproduced at your end.

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