Jun 19, 2024
OpenID Connect
Recently, Tools for Humanity partnered with the German HackerOne Club to run a one-week virtual and in-person Hacking Meetup. In the course of the meetup, a critical vulnerability within the Sign-in with World ID implementation was found, which affected the OpenID Connect form_post Response Mode and could allow malicious actors to take over end-user accounts at third-party applications that utilize the Sign-in with World ID mechanism. The vulnerability was addressed within a few hours after triage.
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Jun 18, 2022
Asana
This post gives an insight into a sensitive data exposure vulnerability in Asana for Mac that was rated as P1 and was awarded a bounty.
This was the very first report of that kind for me. Still, I think this type of deployment and build chain issue is more common than one may think.
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Dec 18, 2021
OpenID Connect
This post gives a deep dive into a critical security flaw that was present in Flickr’s login flow.
The authentication at identity.flickr.com is implemented using AWS Cognito. By exploiting configuration issues and violations of the OpenID Connect specification, it was possible to takeover any Flickr account without user interaction.
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