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Are the values of encrypted urls secure?

Asked by Anil Jha Feb 9, 2022 530 views 1 answer
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One of our suppliers had a weakness on the secure section of his webpage. By changing ID's in the URL, we could see data that did not belong to us.

For example:

https://supplier.org/showItem.do?contract.id=102210199&car.id=102334247

Showed a contract and a car, but so did

https://supplier.org/showItem.do?contract.id=102210200&car.id=102334248

https://supplier.org/showItem.do?contract.id=102210201&car.id=102334249

https://supplier.org/showItem.do?contract.id=102210202&car.id=102334250

and putting other numbers gave other cars. Problem was, with most numbers, not our cars...

We signalled the problem and they fixed it. The URLs are now like this:

 CAR 

 OLD URL 

 NEW URL

 1HTR701    

 https://supplier.org/showItem.do?contract.id=102210199&car.id=102334247

 1HTR801      https://supplier.org/showItem.docontract.id=102210200&car.id=102334248

 1HTR802      https://supplier.org/showItem.do contract.id=102210201&car.id=102334249

 1HTR803  https://supplier.org/showItem.do?contract.id=102210202&car.id=102334250But I'm confused as to how they fixed this. Especially the returning part Vod4UnO5hFROmmVBaiQWd makes me think this is some kind of MD5 or other hashing. I'm just hoping the other parts are not "guessable" by someone else. How can these new URLs be constructed? Does it appear safe?

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