SoylentNews / slashcode

The slashcode repository for SoylentNews. The initial code base was uploaded as it appeared on Sourceforge as of the last commit in September 2009
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BadPasswordLog saved cleartext bad passwords. #358

Closed paulej72 closed 10 years ago

paulej72 commented 10 years ago

This is a security hole as sysadmins could view users failed passwords and guess at their real passwords and use it to potentially log into other services. This bug was mitigated by the fact that the badpassowrd table gets purged and only holds a couple of days worth of bad password. This will be accompanied by setting the password field on the badpassword table to “”.