Vulnerabilities tagged "web"

[Reddit] Race Condition Allowing a User to Recieve More Coins Than Purchased

When purchasing coins for Reddit on Android there is a call to a `/verify_purchase` endpoint which is vulnerable to a race condition.The idea being that this endpoint, being provided some of the transaction information would validate it and give the coins to the purchaser, however there is a problem when handling multiple concurrent requests to endpoint...
 

‘Websocket Hijacking’ to steal Session_ID of victim users

Websockets have always been a little bit special when it comes to security considerations, they are a newer technology and the security concerns are often not well understood. Websocket Hijacking tends to occur because websocket connections are not protected by the usual Same-Origin-Policy (SOP) that more traditional resources would be, so malicious websites can by default connect to a foreign websocket using a victims cookies (assuming `SameSite` is not at play).