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Saturday, June 09, 2012

Password reset over HTTP -- Part 3

It's been a while since my last two posts on the topic. This time it's Groupon.

The password reset page is over HTTP:
groupon-forgot-password

The reset password email that you receive contains a link that looks like this:

http://groupon.com/users/password_reset/{token}?utm_source=password_reset \
    &utm_medium=email&sid={sid}&user={uid}&date={YYYYmmdd}

This link does a 301 to itself and then a 302 to a HTTPS version of itself.

The good thing is that your new password is sent over SSL. The bad thing is that your reset token is sent in clear text.

Update: This issue has been fixed by Groupon a couple of hours after reporting it.

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