HexBrain

Legal Robot · Report #249337

Non-functional 2FA recovery codes

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9upvotes
19 Jul 2017disclosed

Summary

While going live with additional 2FA options, a security researcher discovered that users that had enabled 2FA were not able to recover their accounts in case of a missing phone or authentication device. The issue was caused by improper error handling on the client during account recovery.

How it was found

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