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Can someone explain in plain English what this OAuth flaw is and how it affects logins?

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Subject: Can someone explain in plain English what this OAuth flaw is and how it affects logins?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:31:13 +0200
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by: Charlie - Fri, 27 Oct 2023 06:31 UTC

https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/oauth-log-in-full-account-takeover-millions

"Just these three sites are enough for us to prove our point, and we
decided to not look for additional targets," according to the report, "but
we expect that thousands of other websites are vulnerable to the attack we
detail in this post, putting billions of additional Internet users at risk
every day,"

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