Bug, $50K+ in bounties: how Zendesk left a backdoor in companies

20 pointsposted 9 months ago
by hackermondev

10 Comments

politelemon

9 months ago

> Personally, I’ve always found it surprising that these massive companies, worth billions, rely on third-party tools like Zendesk instead of building their own in-house ticketing systems.

The same reason hackers/developers, use existing tools instead of writing their own. Of course it is more efficient. But also, if they did it themselves it would be much worse, buggier, and likely vulnerable than using something from a third party that's focusing on that one thing. To put it another way, the self made ones would have more and worse problems than the ones found in many third party tools.

DarkerInk

9 months ago

Great find, it's a shame Zendesk didn't pay a bounty (very stupid Imo) but at least you got some bounties from reporting it to affected companies.

o11c

9 months ago

Not sure why this got flagged, unless related to the "keep it up" comments? It's an interesting read ...

slater

9 months ago

great job astroturfers, keep it up

user

9 months ago

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sairamkunala

9 months ago

(as a devops/security minded engineer) ...and companies wonder how supply chain attacks are possible

user

9 months ago

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