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
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- Create a new account and use the email address as the password.
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- 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