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Few steps on how to take over a whole application

An audit-trail endpoint returned other users' records with their password reset tokens embedded, and only the last six hexadecimal characters varied. Brute-forcing that small range let a low-privileged user harvest email addresses, trigger resets, read the fresh admin token out of the same log, and overwrite the administrator's password.

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Sebastian Jeż
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securitum.com
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