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MTN Group · Report #1536936

Unprotected Direct Object Reference

Validstatus
criticalseverity
13upvotes
1 Dec 2022disclosed

How it was found

Hello MTN Security Team, During my hunting, I discovered that there's an Insecure Direct Object Reference on https://nin.mtnonline.com Vulnerable Path: https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=1

Steps To Reproduce: You may not even require to submit any NIN before accessing this unprotected page, Just visit https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=1

I discovered that, to see other user's NIN, it only require 2 difference , example https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=3 https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=5 https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=7 https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=9 https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=11 https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=1901 https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=1903 https://nin.mtnonline.com/nin/success?message=8001

Impact

This bug exposed all the submitted Nigerians National Identity Number (NIN) .which can be abused in other way else if found out by a malicious person

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