Yes it is a vector. Imagin the following: you go to a "friend". there you log in to your site. before you leave, you forgotten to logout. at home you change your password. but your friend can still use your account.
greetings Am 23.06.2014 20:21, schrieb Christian K.: > Hi, > > i have a question if this is an attack vector (website is german want ad > branch from ebay kleinanzeigen.ebay.de prob. english site affected too): > > On Computer A the browser (FF) has an open tab with the site where, when > visited, user A is always signed on (because the specific site is the user > panel). > > On Computer B user A wants to log into his account, but forgot his > password. He successfully changed his password using the "forgot password" > button and was able to log in. > > Then user A moves from Computer B to Computer A (which was off at the time > user A was at Computer B) and starts its browser where he realizes that he > is still logged into his account on the site without any password > confirmation. > > As this happend to me, the question is: is this an attack vector (I assume > it is) and how can I as a user protect myself? Am not really into security > engineering (just non-sec-related software engineering...), so forgive my > dumbness! > > Thanks. > > > C. > > _______________________________________________ > Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list > http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure > Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/ > _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
