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Trovisio Responsible Disclosure – Password Hash Leakage

Trovisio Responsible Disclosure – Password Hash Leakage

Security, Vulnerabilities
Getting another opportunity to become part of a hall of fame for security related contributions is pretty cool and this was because of a very simple bug which was not noticed during the development of the system. Last time I saw this kind of issue was a few months ago when I was working on a back-end system for a client and finding this again on another website basically means that it's probably common out there. During my initial non-intrusive information gathering, I found a lot of API links which made me test them for some basic responses and they seemed pretty secure until I opened the console of Chrome. After noticing that the APIs were throwing console logs, I visited a few pages and guess what popped up? It was the password hash! This happened when the page "Account Se...