HexBrain

Legal Robot · Report #260491

2FA manual entry uses wrong encoding

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5upvotes
14 Sept 2017disclosed

Summary

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.

How it was found

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