HackerOne · Report #275
Flawed account creation process allows registration of usernames corresponding to existing file names
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16upvotes
8 Jun 2015disclosed
How it was found
The account creation process allows to set up account names corresponding to names of server ressources, e.g. I just successfully created an account robots.txt which results in a profile path of https://hackerone.com/robots.txt and results in an bugged account as accessing account settings etc is impossible.
I'd recommend moving away from filtering names and from profiles being available directly under .com/ and changing it to something more reliable like .com/users/profilename
The robots.txt account can be deleted. I only created it for testing purpose.