One Empty Header to Admin: How an Auth Bypass Breaks OpenBullet2

About this episode

The episode discusses five vulnerabilities in OpenBullet2, including an authentication bypass and various security risks.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/one-empty-header-to-admin-how-an-auth-bypass-breaks-openbullet2 . Five vulnerabilities in OpenBullet2: an empty API key, path traversal, RCE, and an NTLM hash leak. Check more stories related to cybersecurity at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cybersecurity . You can also check exclusive content about #ethical-hacking , #rce , #exploit , #openbullet2 , #what-is-openbullet2 , #openbullet2-explained , #vulnerabilities , #cybersecurity-awareness , and more. This story was written by: @vognik . Learn more about this writer by checking @vognik's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . This article walks through 5 CVEs: an empty X-Api-Key header that bypasses authentication by default, arbitrary C# and script-file execution, a wordlist path traversal granting arbitrary file read/write/delete as root, and an NTLMv2 hash leak on Windows.

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• vulnerabilities
• authentication bypass
• OpenBullet2
• ethical hacking

Keywords

• OpenBullet2
• auth bypass
• vulnerabilities
• RCE
• NTLM hash leak

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HackerNoon

Products: OpenBullet2

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