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CVE-2022-2651: Email Verification Bypass Leads To Account Takeover in bookwyrm

Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in GitHub repository bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm prior to 0.4.5.

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  1. Hello maintainer, i noticed that there is no ratelimit protetcion on https://book.dansmonorage.blue/confirm-email endpoint, so we can perform bruteforce attack

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create a acount with victims email id
  2. When the account is created, its ask for email confirmation via validating OTP on https://book.dansmonorage.blue/confirm-email
  3. Enter any random OTP and try to perfrom bruteforce attack

Patch recommendation:

  1. Add ratelimit protecion on POST confirmation email endpoints/parameters

Impact

  1. Pre-Account Takeover

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