U.S. Dept Of Defense · Report #1059758
Full account takeover in ███████ due lack of rate limiting in forgot password
How it was found
Steps:
- Visit the link https://www.██████/██████████and enter the valid ████████.
- You will be redirect to the page where it will ask you to fill your ████████ and ████████ that you get in your mail.
- Enter the wrong ███ and intercept the request.
- Then bruteforce the ███.(You can use burp intruder)
- After valid ████████ it will aks you to create new password
Request that I intercept
POST ███ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.███████ Connection: close Content-Length: 197 Cache-Control: max-age=0 sec-ch-ua: "Google Chrome";v="87", " Not;A Brand";v="99", "Chromium";v="87" sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0 Origin: https://www.███████ Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 DNT: 1 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9 Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate Sec-Fetch-User: ?1 Sec-Fetch-Dest: document Referer: https://www.█████████/█████████ Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,mr-IN;q=0.8,mr;q=0.7,hi;q=0.6 Cookie: [value]
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Impact
An attacker can takeover victim account if he has valid email related to the victim.