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Uber · Report #134206

Defect-Security | Driver-Broken Authentication | Able to update the Subscription Setting anonymously

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5upvotes
26 Jul 2016disclosed

How it was found

Steps to execute the issue/defect

1:Logged into account on domain (https://riders.uber.com) with one of the accounts (account type-Driver)

2:Now go to Manage your email subscription settings and note the link mentioned below

-View the subscription setting (i.e. subscription setting Uber Global Updates -checked)

-note the url -https://subscriptions.uber.com/user/483c39a2-9e7a-43fb-91a4-980370aa45c3/e911dd42abea2617e625d2547de8038a3e9a42b47097ad570d4b68b1ce25dba9?_ga=1.134668273.1418643578.1461496136

3:Now go to another browser where no authentication is done, now open the same url in Google Chrome

4:After link got opened, now going to modify the subscription setting -(i.e. subscription setting Uber Global Updates -Unchecked)

5:Now Again go to Browser Firefox and refresh the same url as a result of previous step subscription setting got updated

i.e. Uber Global Updates gets -Unchecked from checked

I am successfully able to update the Subscription Setting of an authenticated user anonymously

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