interfacerproject / interfacerproject/zenflows

Mitigate fake email sign-up request: throttling of unsigned API calls and/or captcha

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Since Jul 27, 2022.

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Description

Problem: when signing up, the client sends an unsigned mutation containing an email. A hacker can use this to send N mutations containing emails from a list, to figure out which email is registered in Zenflows.

Ways to mitigate this are:

  • throttling of unsigned API calls
  • implementing a captcha

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