My phone died a few days ago, and the Cisco Duo app overwrote 2FA key backup after connecting my old phone to the internet.
Lemmy has no backup codes, nor can you disable 2FA even while logged in without a valid token.

Anyway, I noticed there’s no rate limiting on 2FA attempts.
So following Lemmy API docs I wrote this exceptionally stupid script (look at my foolish way of parallelization and no auto-stop).

I got the JWT token from logged-in Firefox session, using cookies.txt extension to export it.

Anyway, just make sure your password is secure enough, It’s obviously (potentially) better than 6 digits, probably with 3 valid combinations at each time (current 30s, past 30s, future 30s windows), if I am guessing how it works right.

My attempt also clearly involved a lot of luck with just 21,830 attempts (less than 5 minutes). But, if you’re lucky enough, you may guess it on first attempt, or never if you aren’t.

  • Darkassassin07English
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    6 days ago

    a problem with passing client IP headers from cloudflared

    I’d be willing to bet this is it. My nginx proxy needs special config to pass client IPs correctly to backend services. Otherwise the backend just sees the IP of the proxying cloudflare server.

    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $http_cf_connecting_ip;

    A cloudflare specific header. The typical $remote_addr I use elsewhere has the cloudflare server’s IP when cloudflared is involved.