FirstBlood-#653 — Account takeover by overwriting user's password
This issue was discovered on FirstBlood v2
On 2021-10-27, neolex Level 2 reported:
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Description
The register.php endpoint is insecure.
An attacker can overwrite any user's password via register function.
If you use a existing username when registering you will have the error This invite code is not valid.
But if you intercept the query and append %00 you will have another password set to the victim user.
Step to reproduce
- Go to https://6899078990e9-neolex.a.firstbloodhackers.com/register.php
- Intercept the request of the form with the user's username you want to takeover and the
test invite code
- append %00 to the username
- The victim's password will be changed and displayed
Impact
The impact is account takeover of any admin or doctor's account
P3 Medium
Endpoint: /register.php
Parameter: username
Payload: neolex%00
FirstBlood ID: 24
Vulnerability Type: Auth issues
The old invite code was deleted but when testing FirstBlood v2 the developers accidentally left the test code working.