Vimeo.com Insecure Direct Object References Reset Password

Program: Vimeo Bug Type: IDOR Bounty: Unspecified Date: 2015-01-05
IDOR broken-access-control password-reset

Summary

The researcher found a vulnerability in the password reset functionality through which an attacker can reset anyone's password by knowning the numerical userid of user. The user id is easily obtainable from vimeo's public API. The password reset was in format - https://vimeo.com/forgot\\_password/[user id]/[token], By simply replacing the userid with the id of other user, one could takeover any account.

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