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It's not 100% clear to me, from reading TFA, what the actual vuln is. Suppose DankStartup folds and I, being a morally-dubious sort of fellow, purchase dankstartup.net which I then use to sign into DankStartup's O365, or DankStartup's ChatGPT as a DankStartup employee. Isn't that a failure on DankStartup's part, to not shut down their business accounts? And isn't it also a failure on e.g. Microsoft or OpenAI's parts,…
It's not 100% clear to me, from reading TFA, what the actual vuln is. Suppose DankStartup folds and I, being a morally-dubious sort of fellow, purchase dankstartup.net which I then use to sign into DankStartup's O365, or DankStartup's ChatGPT as a DankStartup employee. Isn't that a failure on DankStartup's part, to not shut down their business accounts? And isn't it also a failure on e.g. Microsoft or OpenAI's parts,…
It's not 100% clear to me, from reading TFA, what the actual vuln is. Suppose DankStartup folds and I, being a morally-dubious sort of fellow, purchase dankstartup.net which I then use to sign into DankStartup's O365, or DankStartup's ChatGPT as a DankStartup employee. Isn't that a failure on DankStartup's part, to not shut down their business accounts? And isn't it also a failure on e.g. Microsoft or OpenAI's parts,…
Well, think about it this way: 1. I create DankStartup and my company uses Google workspaces and Google auth for a bunch of stuff, like payroll. 2. DankStartup goes under and we close our Google accounts/let our domain lapse. 3. Someone else buys DankStartup.com, sets up a Google workspace, and attempts Google auth to log into stuff, and it works. The problem is that the original DankStartup has a Google account that…
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> Suppose DankStartup folds … Isn't that a failure on DankStartup's part, to not shut down their business accounts? Expecting an entity that has already failed* to not fail again isn’t an effective security control, unfortunately. * - not every startup that folds has “failed”, but the point still stands
>Expecting an entity that has already failed* to not fail again isn’t an effective security control, unfortunately. Sure, I'm sympathetic to that, but again I don't see how that's within the scope of oauth.
Someone else comes along, registers a completely different Google Workspace but attaches that same domain to it. The e-mail address is the same, but it's obviously a new Google Workspace with new people, new payment info, new users, etc.
Google knows that these are two different workspaces and that there is effectively no connection between the two other than the domain, but they are not presenting that information through OAuth (which is possible) so other companies are not able to do any sort of diligence in ensuring that the correct people are accessing that data.
OAuth provides the capability to make this distinction, but Google is (or was?) refusing to provide data to other companies to allow them to make that distinction.
This sounds hyperbolic, but Google is effectively lying to these other services that that someone else is in fact the original person that service expects, even though Google knows full well (or is capable of knowing) that that is almost definitely not the case.
It's not 100% clear to me, from reading TFA, what the actual vuln is. Suppose DankStartup folds and I, being a morally-dubious sort of fellow, purchase dankstartup.net which I then use to sign into DankStartup's O365, or DankStartup's ChatGPT as a DankStartup employee. Isn't that a failure on DankStartup's part, to not shut down their business accounts? And isn't it also a failure on e.g. Microsoft or OpenAI's parts,…
whats is TFA ?
It's not 100% clear to me, from reading TFA, what the actual vuln is. Suppose DankStartup folds and I, being a morally-dubious sort of fellow, purchase dankstartup.net which I then use to sign into DankStartup's O365, or DankStartup's ChatGPT as a DankStartup employee. Isn't that a failure on DankStartup's part, to not shut down their business accounts? And isn't it also a failure on e.g. Microsoft or OpenAI's parts,…
whats is TFA ?
It's not 100% clear to me, from reading TFA, what the actual vuln is. Suppose DankStartup folds and I, being a morally-dubious sort of fellow, purchase dankstartup.net which I then use to sign into DankStartup's O365, or DankStartup's ChatGPT as a DankStartup employee. Isn't that a failure on DankStartup's part, to not shut down their business accounts? And isn't it also a failure on e.g. Microsoft or OpenAI's parts,…
whats is TFA ?
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It all depends on how true this statement is: > “The sub claim changes in about 0.04% of logins from Log in with Google. For us, that's hundreds of users last week”.
I've been working with an app that uses Google to login for the past 10 years, and I've had problems with sub changing when these situations happened : - Domain change - Company being bought by another one and being integrated in their Google Workspace - Employee leaving and coming back To us, it's very very far from the quoted 0.04% which is to me very high. I had to deal with it 5-6 times in the past 10 years but o…
It indicates a deeper cultural issue of "convenience/profit over security" if those are sufficient reasons to not check the sub parameter.