Anywayanyday – air tickets and hotels 5.3 (iOS / App Store)

This application is available for iOS. This app is designed to find the flights combining searching results from ~800 airlines and 330,000 hotels. The latest build was released on Jun 23, 2017. Our latest check was performed on Mar 26th, 2017

Findings Summary

Our examination revealed total 38 items, where were 16 DAR items and 22 DIT items found. Among DAR items were found 0 worst items, 11 bad items, 5 good items, and 0 best items. Among DIT items were found 2 worst items, 20 bad items, 0 good items, and 0 best items.

Below you find 3 infographics summarizing what we described above. Each image provides information about both DAR and DIT items.

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Everything presented below is related to well-known CWEs, such as Sensitive data leakage [CWE-200], Unsafe sensitive data storage [CWE-312], Unsafe sensitive data transmission [CWE-319]. You can read more about it here.

Now let’s go deeper and examine each data item’s protection level.

Application Description

Let’s cite the description of this application below:

Anywayanyday is a free iPhone and iPad application from anywayanyday.com, an online service for buying air tickets, train tickets and making hotel reservations all over the world. For your every request the system analyses offers from more than 800 airlines and 330,000 hotels worldwide and finds the optimal ones. Searching, choosing and paying for an air ticket or a hotel take on average about three minutes. We made tickets for over 500 trains available for you. Travel the way you like it!

Functions

Ticket purchase and hotel booking:

Сonvenient search;

Voice data input;

Price calendar;

The flight options are filtered by price, departure time, arrival time, airports, transfers;

Choose train tickets by price, travel time, seat availability, departure and arrival time. Also, pick seats in the carriages upfront. If the train supports electronic check-in, it will happen automatically;

It is often the case that train is cheaper and more convenient than plane. Our service can help with domestic trains as well as passenger trains going to Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Finland and other European countries;

The accommodation options are filtered by price, accommodation type, stars, services;

Pre-booking and booking cancellation directly from the app;

Secure payment using Apple Pay;

Payment for air tickets with bank cards and in cash in mobile phone outlets;

Payment for hotels with bank cards;

Several discounts usable on the same order;

Ticket exchange or refund directly from the app;

Flight itinerary and/or hotel voucher sent per email and texts with payment confirmation;

bonus program from Anywayanyday.com;

supports 3D touch technology.

Additional services:

Issue of insurance policies for travelers;

Issue of insurance policies against flight cancellation and for flight duration (while buying a ticket).

Possibility to buy an Aeroexpress train ticket while booking an air ticket to or out of Moscow

Personal account:

memory book;

order lists;

detailed order information including booked and issued insurance policies;

payment cards data;

your personal and profile data.

iPad version

Interactive map provides you with additional data about weather, currency rates, flight durations, hotel offers for your destinations;

Flight offers are sorted by price starting from the cheapest one; best price offers are always first and singled out.

Be light and fast with the Anywayanyday app!

Protection levels.

Locally stored data (Data-at-Rest, DAR).

Locally stored data groups include Visa ‘n’ Passport Information, Credentials Information, Payment ‘n’ Transaction Information, Loyalty Information, Analytics ‘n’ Ads Information, Media Information, Personal ‘n’ Private Information, Location ‘n’ Maps Information, Log Information, Account Information.
The average DAR value is 4.44 points (7.00 points of system protection and 1.88 points of own protection). It is higher than a typical value (3.5 points, where’s 7 points of system protection and 0 points of own protection).

Items’ GROUP #1 with average value 3.50 points (7 points of system protection, 0 points of own protection) means data protection levels have following definitions. Frankly talking, extra data found that shouldn’t be accessed where system protection level means – root/jailbreak is required but not possible without wiping device data, and own protection level means – stored as is.

– Passport Details (‘Visa ‘n’ Passport Information’ Group) – Full info including name, number expiration, address, gender, birthday, country, family, etc., except biometric data. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be all details are part of passport, visa or another ids,

– Credentials (IDs) (‘Credentials Information’ Group) – Only account IDs like app or 3rd party user IDs including emails, phone number, usernames, etc. (depends on apps). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any types of credentials including basic (IDs only), passwords, tokens, etc.,

– Card Short Information (‘Payment ‘n’ Transaction Information’ Group) – Some info about card holder, card number full or short) and expiration. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be details about transactions and payment data involved into transaction records,

– Credentials (IDs) (‘Loyalty Information’ Group) – Only account IDs like app or 3rd party user IDs including emails, phone number, usernames, etc. (depends on apps). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any information related to known reward programs like membership, current rewards, etc.,

– Device Data (‘Analytics ‘n’ Ads Information’ Group) – Device ID, Device Name, Device OS Name and Version, and jailbroken/root status. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to analytics services like Flurry, Google Analytics, etc. or advertisements,

– Credentials (Access IDs) (‘Analytics ‘n’ Ads Information’ Group) – Different tokens used to get access to your account, except for passwords but including app or 3rd party tokens, secret keys, etc. (usually don’t give full access to your account because based on permissions linked to these access tokens). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to analytics services like Flurry, Google Analytics, etc. or advertisements,

– Personalization (‘Analytics ‘n’ Ads Information’ Group) – Info describes user preferences, favorites, tracked data, search requests, suggestions, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to analytics services like Flurry, Google Analytics, etc. or advertisements,

– Personalization (‘Personal ‘n’ Private Information’ Group) – Info describes user preferences, favorites, tracked data, search requests, suggestions, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any personal and private info is not grabbed from the 3rd party social networks or your IDs,

– Personalization (‘Location ‘n’ Maps Information’ Group) – Info describes user preferences, favorites, tracked data, search requests, suggestions, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any geodata from trackers, social networks, GPS, etc.,

– Credentials (Passwords) (‘Credentials Information’ Group) – Well-known passwords or PINs you’re using to get access to your account (usually it is worse than tokens because it gives full access to your account). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any types of credentials including basic (IDs only), passwords, tokens, etc.,

– Account Details (‘Account Information’ Group) – Full info about your account including account membership, expiration, profile, linked data and account, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential IDs like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications

Items’ GROUP #2 with average value 6.50 points (7 points of system protection, 6 points of own protection) means data protection levels have following definitions. Frankly talking, protection and privacy issues are still possible but might involve interaction with an app code where system protection level means – root/jailbreak is required but not possible without wiping device data, and own protection level means – data is not available in backups.

– Screen Snapshots (‘Media Information’ Group) – Screenshots of your device screen running certain apps; common as an iOS app multitasking feature (app swipes) or browser tab swipes. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any data like photo, image, video, audio,

– Application Configs (‘Analytics ‘n’ Ads Information’ Group) – Different configuration files created by your app, perhaps app permissions. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to analytics services like Flurry, Google Analytics, etc. or advertisements,

– Log Data (‘Log Information’ Group) – Logged any data as a solid file or multipart files. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any information stored in local or network logs,

– Device Data (‘Log Information’ Group) – Device ID, Device Name, Device OS Name and Version, and jailbroken/root status. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any information stored in local or network logs,

– Environment (‘Log Information’ Group) – Different info about the environment of the device including apps lists, device info, OS name and versions, updates, a list of users, network details, etc. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any information stored in local or network logs

Also, keep in mind, using jailbroken device means the system protection level is 0 points and you’re using out-of-date iOS < 8.3 the system protection level is 2 points. If some data marked as shareable via iTunes, then the system protection level is 4 points.

Transferred data (Data-in-Transit, DIT).

Transferred data groups include Travel Information, Visa ‘n’ Passport Information, Booking ‘n’ Purchases Information, Credentials Information, Payment ‘n’ Transaction Information, Personal ‘n’ Private Information, Loyalty Information, Analytics ‘n’ Ads Information, Location ‘n’ Maps Information, Weather Information, Account Information.
The average DIT value is 4.09 points (4.55 points of system protection and 3.64 points of own protection). It is higher than a typical value (4 points, where’s 4 points of system protection and 4 points of own protection).

Items’ GROUP #1 with average value 4.50 points (5 points of system protection, 4 points of own protection) means data protection levels have following definitions. Frankly talking, data available if it’s allowed only and may require user action where system protection level means – some techniques are available to developers to keep connection bypassing system settings, like proxy settings, etc., and own protection level means – bypassed by fake/stolen root certificates.

– Travel Details (‘Travel Information’ Group) – Full info about accommodation (hotel, address, contacts, room, date and time, facilities, media data), flights (routes, location, date and time, media data) or ground (routes, location, date and time, media data). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any travel info like flight, accommodation, ground transportation, etc.,

– Orders & Reservation Details (‘Booking ‘n’ Purchases Information’ Group) – Full info about orders, reservations, like ID, date and time, amount of payment, flight routes, hotel or another order details, rules, linked data. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to your booking and purchases like travel, app or another kind of purchases,

– Orders & Reservation History (‘Booking ‘n’ Purchases Information’ Group) – Basic info about orders, reservations, like ID, date and time, amount of payment, and place (depends on apps). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to your booking and purchases like travel, app or another kind of purchases,

– Card Full Information (‘Payment ‘n’ Transaction Information’ Group) – All details about card include short info, holder address, bank info and CVC, CVV, CVV2. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be details about transactions and payment data involved into transaction records,

– Device Details (‘Analytics ‘n’ Ads Information’ Group) – Includes basic device details plus hardware key and fingerprints as well as IMEI. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to analytics services like Flurry, Google Analytics, etc. or advertisements,

– Passport Details (‘Booking ‘n’ Purchases Information’ Group) – Full info including name, number expiration, address, gender, birthday, country, family, etc., except biometric data. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to your booking and purchases like travel, app or another kind of purchases,

– Log Data (‘Analytics ‘n’ Ads Information’ Group) – Logged any data as a solid file or multipart files. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to analytics services like Flurry, Google Analytics, etc. or advertisements,

– Birthday Details (‘Account Information’ Group) – Separately stored info about date or place of birthday (usually part of profile or grabbed from social networks). This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential IDs like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications,

– Passport Data (‘Account Information’ Group) – Some info including name, number, expiration. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any info related to profiles, basic credential IDs like email or username or phone number plus some more info depends on applications,

– GEO Data (‘Location ‘n’ Maps Information’ Group) – Any GEO info stored as plain text referred to the places or tracked activity. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any geodata from trackers, social networks, GPS, etc.,

– Address Data (‘Location ‘n’ Maps Information’ Group) – Home, work or another type of owner address stored by apps. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any geodata from trackers, social networks, GPS, etc.

Items’ GROUP #2 with average value 0.00 points (0 points of system protection, 0 points of own protection) means data protection levels have following definitions. Frankly talking, data ‘as is’ and easily accessed (plaintext, no protection at all) where system protection level means – transferred (or supposed to be) ‘as is’ (plaintext) due to jailbreak/root or preinstalled non-trusted firmware, certificates, etc., and own protection level means – transferred as is, perhaps protection mode turns off or doesn’t exist or info reveal eventually.

– GEO Data (‘Weather Information’ Group) – Any GEO info stored as plain text referred to the places or tracked activity. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any information referred to weather details plus additional like GEO or cities and so on,

– Weather Data (‘Weather Information’ Group) – Sort of information related to weather data directly including basic geodata like cities or address. This data item related to mentioned group meant to be any information referred to weather details plus additional like GEO or cities and so on

Keep in mind if you’re using out-of-date iOS < 9.0, the system level equals 2 points instead of 4. It means your data can be stolen without involving your actions.

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