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by config_yml 966 days ago
They're a small company with an even smaller engineering team, I think 13 devs or something like that. I would imagine either everyone knows about it immediately or they are too overloaded with work that it gets deprioritised into oblivion after a quick first look.
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It's not an excuse, it's just poor engineering culture or lack of security awareness. I work with an engineering team of 5 - security issues still get prioritised and fixed. Feature work gets deprioritised, as it should, as soon as there's a credible security concern.
You must work at a half-decent outfit then.
If they had time to rewrite the whole native app to React Native then they should have enough time to triage this security issue.
All they had to do was add and validate a nonce value in the state, or at the very least, to triage, sanitize the subdomain value. The latter would literally be a 10 minute fix.