[NEWS] www.address.com Account Hijacking Vulnerability

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Date: 01/16/02 

From: support@securiteam.com
To: list@securiteam.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:36:17 +0100 (CET)

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  www.address.com Account Hijacking Vulnerability
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SUMMARY

 <http://www.address.com> www.address.com has a vulnerability that allows
reading the email of other users. address.com offers, among other things,
free email (similar to hotmail.com).

DETAILS

The registration form used by www.address.com allows attackers to
overwrite existing accounts. When it does, the password is overwritten,
and the new user takes control of the account (the former user will no
longer know the password).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by Anonymous.

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