Issue 2550716
Created on 2011-08-05 10:00 by luke, last changed 2012-12-18 14:42 by ThomasAH.
| msg4358 |
Author: [hidden] (luke) |
Date: 2011-08-05 10:00 |
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Roundup allows you to request a password reset request
(/user?@template=forgotten). After stating an username Roundup confirms
this request with "Email sent to EMAILADRESS". This allows to tap addresses.
My rfe would be to change this to "Email send to USER@..." (by omitting
the domain) or simply "Email with password request has been sent."
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| msg4367 |
Author: [hidden] (ber) |
Date: 2011-08-11 10:54 |
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Hi Luke,
thanks for the feedback.
Can you explain to me a bit more, how that "taping" of emails
is raising the risk? I mean, if you at all can tap the emails of the
roundup-server, you'd probably would just tap all of them. And often
you might already have an idea about the corresponding email domain of
some users.
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| msg4564 |
Author: [hidden] (ezio.melotti) |
Date: 2012-05-22 00:35 |
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FWIW this has been reported at
http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue430 too.
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| msg4568 |
Author: [hidden] (ber) |
Date: 2012-05-22 07:53 |
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Ezio, thanks for linking!
At least Loewis also seems to think that this is not an issue,
but a feature.
What is your take on the issue?
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| msg4703 |
Author: [hidden] (ThomasAH) |
Date: 2012-12-18 14:42 |
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Bernhard, in msg4367 you seem to think that someone needs to get hold of
the sent mail to retrieve the address.
Clarification:
The email address is displayed as "Email sent to user@example.com" in
the web interface, even when just the username was entered in the
password reset form.
I consider this an information leak as it does not even use the
permission system, therefore upgrading to type security and severity
normal. I would even think that a higher severity level might be
appropriate.
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| Date |
User |
Action |
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| 2012-12-18 14:42:44 | ThomasAH | set | nosy:
+ ThomasAH messages:
+ msg4703 severity: minor -> normal type: rfe -> security |
| 2012-05-22 08:12:18 | ber | set | priority: normal |
| 2012-05-22 07:53:05 | ber | set | messages:
+ msg4568 |
| 2012-05-22 00:35:54 | ezio.melotti | set | nosy:
+ ezio.melotti messages:
+ msg4564 |
| 2011-08-11 10:54:34 | ber | set | nosy:
+ ber messages:
+ msg4367 |
| 2011-08-05 10:00:33 | luke | create | |
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