#31505: Document possible email address enumeration in PasswordResetView.
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Reporter: Mohammad Almazroa | Owner: felixxm
Type: | Status: assigned
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: Documentation | Version: 3.0
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: User Enumeration | Triage Stage: Accepted
Security Bug |
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Mohammad Almazroa):
Replying to [comment:1 felixxm]:
> First of all, please note that security issues
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/internals/security/#reporting-
security-issues should be privately sent] to [email protected]
and never on public issue trackers.
>
> Your analysis is correct, however `PasswordResetView` sends an email
which always take an extra time. We don't know how much it takes so adding
a fixed delay is impossible and for a random sleep time you'd just need a
bit of statistic to figure it out.
>
> I think we could document this potential account existence leak in
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/topics/auth/default/#django.contrib.auth.views.PasswordResetView
PasswordResetView].
Really sorry that I reported it publicly here.
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