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“I have found a working IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) bug, where I could get a frame from any private video on YouTube!”

David Schützbugs.xdavidhu.me ↗

Private on YouTube meant private on YouTube. Google Ads had its own path to the same videos and never checked who owned them. Pull enough frames and you get a silent copy of the whole thing. Google paid $5,000 and switched the feature off until it learned to check permissions.