No Rate-limit on Invite User
Description :
Rate limiting is a strategy for limiting network traffic. It puts a cap on how often someone can repeat an action within a certain timeframe – for instance, trying to log in to an account.
Steps To Reproduce
1 - Go to
https://target.com/
2 - Navigate to
Invite User
option and Enter thevictim's email
3 - Send invite &
Intercept
the Request4 - Send the request to
Intruder
& clear payload positions5 - Apply payload type as
null payload
and payload count as 1005 - Click on
Start attack
after applying the threads6 - The victim will get huge number of emails
Impact :
If the company is using any email service software API(such as AWS,GCP..etc) or some tool that has been bought for the emails being sent on the support domain, the rate limit can result in
financial loss
and it can alsoslow down your services
as huge/mass mails willlead to disruption of data
that original user might send or the quota that has been bought might be exhausted.
Mitigation -
1 - IP Based Blocking
2 - Captcha
3 - Firewall
4 - Reducing the number of API requests
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