AdForest - Classified Android App version 4.0.12 (package name scriptsbundle.adforest), developed by Muhammad Jawad Arshad, contains an improper access control vulnerability in its authentication mechanism. The app uses a Base64-encoded email address as the authorization credential, which can be manipulated by attackers to gain unauthorized access to user accounts. Successful exploitation could result in account compromise, privacy breaches, and misuse of the platform.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: