Background#

Identify valid email-accounts.

Pre-requisites#

Risks#

Depending on the lockout policy you risk locking out users, and thus cause considerable damage.

It also produces lots of logs.

How to check for#

First check if the accounts is valid. https://github.com/LMGsec/o365creeper

Perform password spraying attack: https://github.com/dafthack/MailSniper

How to exploit#

Recommendation#

This finding should not be reported as the name of this issue, instead it should be reported as the vulnerabilities written below. The below written vulnerabilities map to the vulnerability-descriptions in that repo.

For example, if kerberoast, report as the following vulnerabilities if they are applicable:

References#

https://github.com/LMGsec/o365creeper