U.S. Dept Of Defense · Report #193932
Misconfigured password reset vulnerability on a DoD website
Validstatus
criticalseverity
19upvotes
15 Feb 2017disclosed
Summary
A Department of Defense website was mis-configured such that the password reset function could be bypassed to change a user's password. @mthirup was able to demonstrate this vulnerability by crafting a specially formatted URL. Thanks @mthirup!
How it was found
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