Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in pixelfed/pixelfed
Reported on
Oct 9th 2021
Description:
There is no rate limit sent unlimited email victim or any email address.
Proof of Concept:
There is no rate limit return-password , attacker to send unlimited email to victim or any email address.
Impact:
Attacker can sent unlimited email to any mail address .
Solution:
Add 'throttle' => 60,
to auth.php config or $this->middleware('throttle:3,1')
to the forgot password controller construct.
References:
https://apisecurity.io/encyclopedia/content/owasp/api4-lack-of-resources-and-rate-limiting.htm
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