HexBrain

IRCCloud · Report #28703

Weak password policy

Informativestatus
4upvotes
27 Nov 2014disclosed

How it was found

Hi there,

I noticed that the website does not prevent an user from using this email address as a password. This can lead to some poor password decisions on the clientside.

#Steps to reproduce

    1. Create a new account and use the email address as the password.
    1. Reset your password and choose your email address as the password.

In both cases, the application does not prevent this decision.

To improve the password strength, the application should avoid 1-to-1 usage of personal information as the account password.

I'm aware that you're using rate-limiting to prevent brute-force attacks, but in that case it's just a single email/email authentication request.

Let me know what you think about it.

Best regards, Sebastian

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