full-disclosure - Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Vulnerability

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From: marcs at znep.com (Marc Slemko)
Subject: Hotmail & Passport (.NET Accounts) Vulnerability

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Christopher F. Herot wrote:

>
> I just tried this.  It does indeed generate the "reset password" email
> and link, which is scary, but following the instructions does not really
> reset the password, at least not for the limited test I performed.

It definitely worked for me around 20:45 (-0700).

Microsoft may have gotten it disabled by now, they do generally have
a very quick reaction time to such trivial stupid massive gaping holes
once they actually get the message about them.