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Comment by amaccuish

Because as far as I can tell, there was no "vulnerability" here, it's just how the product works. Stealing an OAuth key is just as bad. Stealing a domain's krbtgt key is just as bad.

Businesses want that when they login to a computer, they are SSO'ed in to all their apps. That's how ADFS works, you authenticate to it using kerberos and it issues you a SAML token. Here they stole apparently the key used to sign the SAML token so they could generate their own.

Unless there was some vulnerability that exposed the key publically, I fail to see how in this particular incident its Microsoft's fault.

parent amaccuish 2 years ago

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