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by thinkshiv 2248 days ago
Hi all - Shiv from Auth0. I am the CPO and wanted to share some additional context here. On July 31st 2019, at 5:11 am, we received an email from Insomnia reporting a service vulnerability. By 11:00 pm the same day, we had fixed the issue in production. We analyzed the logs and validated that no one exploited the vulnerability. More details from our CSO here: https://auth0.com/blog/insomnia-security-disclosure/?utm_sou.... Thanks to Insomnia for reporting the vulnerability and their partnership in coordinated disclosure. We appreciate the continued feedback from the security community-at-large to ensure we are providing the most secure platform for our global customers.
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Why did your implementation have a case-sensitive check for a fixed list of algorithms, and why are you blacklisting vs. whitelisting acceptable algorithms? 'Old, stable' codebase or not... this is production code for a security product and seems like something that would be picked up during an audit.
Not the OP but, the sad truth is that code audits aren't that good at eradicating bugs.