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Limit password length (at a reasonable length) #13491

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Findus23 opened this issue Sep 27, 2018 · 0 comments · Fixed by #13494
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Limit password length (at a reasonable length) #13491

Findus23 opened this issue Sep 27, 2018 · 0 comments · Fixed by #13494
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c: Security For issues that make Matomo more secure. Please report issues through HackerOne and not in Github.
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related to #10235 and partly reverses #10349
reported in 415304

While long passwords are definitely more secure, allowing 200 000 character and more character long password makes it possible to DDOS the server.

So I'd propose to reintroduce a password limit, but at a reasonable length (maybe 200 characters)
@Findus23 Findus23 added the c: Security For issues that make Matomo more secure. Please report issues through HackerOne and not in Github. label Sep 27, 2018
@Findus23 Findus23 added this to the 3.7.0 milestone Sep 27, 2018
@tsteur tsteur self-assigned this Sep 28, 2018
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