New Delhi: In a recent exposition, an independent security researcher named Renganathan P recently told the Indian computer emergency response team about the main vulnerabilities on the IRCTC platform that allows easy access to personal information from passenger lakh.
Not only that, exploiting charging (direct unsafe object reference) vulnerabilities on the IRCTC can even allow attackers to cancel train tickets ordered from random passengers.
The Idor vulnerability on the IRCTC also allows anyone to change the boarding point (from the train), order food, book a hotel, tour package, and even order a bus, according to Renganathan.
Renganathan, who claimed to have helped LinkedIn, the United Nations, BYJU, NIKE, LENOVO, UPSTOX in improving security vulnerabilities in their web application, reporting the problem to Cert-in on August 30, 2021, by sending an email on “Incident @ incident-in .org.in “.
The idor vulnerability was set on September 4 and IRCTC acknowledged the same thing on September 11.
It is not possible to determine how long this vulnerability is present on the IRCTC platform.
Also, there is little official information about whether this vulnerability is exploited or not.
We don’t know now whether the user is directly affected due to the problem of the technology.
Considering that the IRCTC is one of the largest ticket booking platforms in India with the majority of residents who rely on it to travel by train, the implication can be very large.
Explain how vulnerability was found, said Renganathan, “when I ordered a ticket as a normal human being, I suddenly got an idea to test the vulnerabilities.” In the letter to Cert-in (a copy of the Times of India – Gadgetsnow), he wrote, “Go to your account ticket history, click on any tickets with Burp Suite.
Now change the transaction ID to get access to other people’s tickets, You will get all sensitive details.
You can also cancel a person’s ticket or do evil things.
“” I tried to an idor and decrease the number of transaction IDs and forward packages.
And yes! I got a transaction and ticket details of random users like the train number, time of departure , duration of travel, PNR number, ticket status, dormitory stations, passenger information such as their names, seat details, gender & age, “he added.