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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Feb 2017
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Type: Bug-Security



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Security: Hijacking accounts with olders photo from accounts

Reported by aiklerle...@gmail.com, Feb 26 2017

Issue description

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VULNERABILITY DETAILS
The accounts can be hacked while recovering any password with questions,however when we know approximately when an account was created we can fill the question 'When did you create this Google Account?' with the exact year when the account was created and the approximation of the month and this details can be find on 'Hangouts' for example,if the account there have an older photo where he/she had uploaded in YYYY/MM then the account can be successfully hacked.

VERSION
Chrome Version: [56.0.2924.87] + [Official Build(64-bit)]
Operating System: [Windows 10 PRO,Version:1607,Build:14393.693]

REPRODUCTION CASE
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make the file as small as possible and remove any content not required to
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Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This does not represent a security vulnerability in Chrome.

Vulnerabilities in non-Chrome products can be reported to Google here: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/reward-program/index.html

If Google Account recovery was limited to just "When was this account created", that would indeed be very weak, but I do not believe that this is the case. 
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Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 5 2017

Labels: -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam allpublic
This bug has been closed for more than 14 weeks. Removing security view restrictions.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
 Issue 784734  has been merged into this issue.

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