Check Point researchers discovered a security flaw in TikTok’s “Find friends” feature that allows users to sync their contacts with the service to identify potential people to follow. A successful exploitation of the vulnerability could have resulted in data leakage and privacy violation, researchers said. TikTok has deployed a fix to address the shortcoming following responsible disclosure from Check Point. This is far from the first time the popular video-sharing app has been found to contain security weaknesses in the popular app. The bug was discovered by security researchers at Check Point Research.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/tiktok-bug-could-have-exposed-users.html