HexBrain

Paragon Initiative Enterprises · Report #149028

[URGENT] Password reset emails are sent in clear-text (without encryption)

Informativestatus
3upvotes
3 Jul 2016disclosed

How it was found

Hey, I've found that when we use the 'forgot password' page to recover our password, bridge.cspr.ng sends an email to us, and when I tried to get more information about the email from [email protected], I saw that the email is sent in clear-text instead of TLS which is so vulnerable since any Man-in-the-middle attacker is able to read these sensitive Emails and get the password reset link -> which can lead to account takeover.

You can see in this image that 'no encryption' is used:

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This can further lead to Account Takeover that's why I've added [URGENT] in the title.

If you have any other questions or if anything needs clarification, please let me know.

Thanks, Ahsan Tahir

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