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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2018
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Security



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Gmail Security Issue - Problem found when Gmail login

Reported by jeenaxav...@gmail.com, Mar 20 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.186 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. My fiance forgot his gmail password and he is moved to another country as part of his job. So he changed his Mobile no. So as to he can't access his gmail via phone number.
2. His gmail account is already signed in from my mobile phone, also me too not remembering the password.
When I'm going to change the password from gmail it ask for the old password, which I don't know.
3. All the security questions were not easy as well, and I tried to change password from my gmail too.Bad luck!
At last Could reset it using my mobile number.

So the problem is if his account was logged in any of other person instead of me, What will happen. Also his Facebook is linked in from this gmail too.
So it is very easy to attack by other one's.

What is the expected behavior?
If the security question was easy, it was great. Also if he  login via his new phone number.

What went wrong?
If someone who knows the security questions(When created the gmail -  basic questions) it easy for them to attack the account. Also they can access via phone number if they got access on it.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 64.0.3282.186  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:
 
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Unfortunately, the Chrome issue tracker is not the correct place to report issues with Google Account security, and there's no action we can take here.

Having said that, the issue described here sounds like everything is working as intended-- a user who forgets their password must provide additional information in order to recover their account, and account recovery should be difficult for a third-party.
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Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 26 2018

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

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