HexBrain

Legal Robot · Report #260390

2FA manual entry uses wrong encoding

Validstatus
lowseverity
15upvotes
24 Sept 2017disclosed

Summary

As in report #260491, a security researcher discovered that following another change (from report #259415), we used the wrong encoding for the manually entered secret. No sensitive data was exposed and there was no security risk, but users were unable to manually register a new TOTP device for about 12 hours.

@vishnuprasad reported this issue first, but due to a clerical error, report #260491 was processed first, awarded a bounty, and closed as Resolved. It is therefore only fair to award the same bounty to @vishnuprasad and close this report as Resolved. @vishnuprasad, we apologize for the error and have awarded a bonus for our mistake.

How it was found

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