Re: Bigfoot/Bellsouth Webmail bug

From: James Nerlinger, Jr. (jnj@ais-bbs.org)
Date: Fri Jan 08 1999 - 09:58:20 PST

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    >I seem to have found another "bug" with the Bigfoot/Bellsouth Webmail.
    >Users can log back into the service from cached pages.  This is a huge
    >security hole, especially for users access these services from public
    >terminals.  Subsequent users can just use the back button to go back in the
    >previous session history and log in as the previous user.
    
    
    This is not uncommon in web based email & conferencing packages, however,
    most are authored to only allow this for a certain amount of time and to
    disregard the attempt if the user logged out properly.  Out of curiosity,
    did you test this with the two variables of time and a logout?
    
    James
    



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