During a recent assessment, our team came upon a vulnerability that felt like finding a hidden door in a seemingly secure fortress. The discovery involved the password-reset mechanism of an application, allowing us to reset any user’s password with just their email address. This flaw circumvents authentication, giving unauthorized access to user accounts. Here’s how […]
AppSec Travels
AppSec Travels Part 2: Access-Control Bypass
What happens when combined technologies counteract security controls? This is another in Redpoint’s blog series AppSec Travels where we walk you through interesting findings we’ve discovered in vulnerability assessments. AppSec Travels is on ongoing series without a regular cadence because frankly some assessments are perfunctory security checks lacking in exciting findings and we sort of […]
AppSec Travels Part I: Function Overload
Token Caching This is our first blog of AppSec Travels where we walk you through interesting findings we’ve discovered in vulnerability assessments. This will be on ongoing series without a regular cadence because frankly some assessments are perfunctory security checks lacking in exciting findings and we sort of doubt anyone wants to read findings write-ups […]