Pre Account Takeover

mo9khu93r
1 min readSep 26, 2023

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No rate limit on OTP verification

I got a target from google dork, on which I started hunting.

My approach is to give my 💯 % in recon part.

🎊Steps to reproduce-

1. I went to shodan and simply searched target.com

2. I got number of IPs, after checking them. I got one which shows account creation🥸

3. The functionality was simple that is enter phone number > click on get OTP > enter OTP to verify✌️

4. There was two flaws one is no rate limit on getting OTPs which can be used to launched bombing attack🔥

5. But the second flaw was that after getting OTP on a random phone number, they asked me to enter the OTP for verification👋

6. I started burp suite and entered 4 digits wrong OTP > intercept the request > send it to intruder🎉

7. Then selected number payloads > add OTP’s value of the URL (OTP=$0000$) > generate payloads from 0000 to 9999👶

8. I checked every response of the request its 200 OK 👍 (entered OTP is wrong)💥

9. But one OTP got hit and this leads to pre account takeover🫂

Thanks for reading 📚

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