My understanding is, at present, that OAuth consumers are not impacted
by this issue.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 13:29, Dossy Shiobara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 4/22/09 4:27 PM, Alex Payne wrote:
>>
>> In cooperation with this consortium of other OAuth providers
>> (including Yahoo!, Google, Netflix, etc.), we agreed not to disclose
>> the nature of the vulnerability, nor even that a vulnerability
>> existed, until all members of the group agreed to do so. I apologize
>> for what must have seemed unnecessarily tight-lipped communication
>> around this issue, but please understand that we and the other
>> companies involved are trying to mitigate the impact of this
>> vulnerability as much as possible.
>
> Can you at least disclose whether OAuth _consumers_ who leave their OAuth
> callback endpoints up are exposing themselves to risk?
>
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> Dossy Shiobara              | [email protected] | http://dossy.org/
> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
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>    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>



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