Weak Password policy on account registration in answerdev/answer

Valid

Reported on

Apr 26th 2023


Description

It was observed that application allows to create account with Blank spaces as password

Proof of Concept

1. Go to https://meta.answer.dev/users/register
2. Create account with 10 blank spaces as password

Result:
Application allows to create user account with blank spaces as password

Impact

The vulnerability may allow an attacker to guess users’ passwords and gain unauthorized access to the application.

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Mohammed
2 months ago

Researcher


Hi Team, any updates on reported issue? appreciate your reply!

answerdev/answer maintainer validated this vulnerability 2 months ago

Thanks for the feedback!

Mohammed A. Siledar has been awarded the disclosure bounty
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answerdev/answer maintainer marked this as fixed in v1.1.0 with commit 7d23b1 2 months ago
The fix bounty has been dropped
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE
answerdev/answer maintainer published this vulnerability 2 months ago
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