Interesting Story of an Account Takeover Vulnerability
Program: private
Bug Type: IDOR
Bounty: Unspecified
Date: 2023-06-01
Summary
The vulnerability was in the support ticket system's endpoint /v2/my-support/ticket/{ticket_id}, which used predictable numeric IDs and did not enforce proper authorization checks.
By changing the ticket_id in the URL to another valid number, the researcher was able to view tickets submitted by other users, exposing private communications and potentially sensitive data.
This was reported as a P2 (High severity) issue on Bugcrowd and subsequently fixed. This summary is generated using AI