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Issue 2550716

classification
Title: Email address displayed after password reset request
Type: security Severity: normal
Components: Web interface Versions: 1.4
process
Status: new Resolution:
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: ThomasAH, ber, ezio.melotti, luke
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2011-08-05 10:00 by luke, last changed 2012-12-18 14:42 by ThomasAH.

Messages
msg4358 Author: [hidden] (luke) Date: 2011-08-05 10:00
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."
msg4367 Author: [hidden] (ber) Date: 2011-08-11 10:54
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.
msg4564 Author: [hidden] (ezio.melotti) Date: 2012-05-22 00:35
FWIW this has been reported at
http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue430 too.
msg4568 Author: [hidden] (ber) Date: 2012-05-22 07:53
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?
msg4703 Author: [hidden] (ThomasAH) Date: 2012-12-18 14:42
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.
History
Date User Action Args
2012-12-18 14:42:44ThomasAHsetnosy: + ThomasAH
messages: + msg4703
severity: minor -> normal
type: rfe -> security
2012-05-22 08:12:18bersetpriority: normal
2012-05-22 07:53:05bersetmessages: + msg4568
2012-05-22 00:35:54ezio.melottisetnosy: + ezio.melotti
messages: + msg4564
2011-08-11 10:54:34bersetnosy: + ber
messages: + msg4367
2011-08-05 10:00:33lukecreate