Broken Authentication & Session Management

Received this email - not sure what it means:

Hey Team,

I’m a penetration tester and bug bounty hunter. I have found a potential vulnerability in the site. Please review the report below.

Vulnerability: Broken Authentication & Session Management
We have observed that when we change “password” from one browser in place of session expiration from another browser it just updates the password from another browser and the old session gets updated without being logged out. The flows goes like this:
Broken Authentication and Session Management > Failure to Invalidate Session > On Password Change
Steps:
1- Login from two browsers at a time [From Chrome browser and from Mozilla Firefox].
2- Change password in settings from chrome browser.
3- Now Check Mozilla Firefox.
4- Your Session got “updated” in place of expiration.

Same goes with when using two different computer systems.
1- Login from two computers at a time
2- Change password in settings from computer A.
3- Now Check computer B.
4- Your Session got “updated” in place of expiration.

Recommendations: If Session is Updating from one Browser/Computer so other should expire first to renew session after login.

If you require any additional information, please let me know. I’ll be waiting to hear from your side regarding the report and bounty.

Hi Cindy,

I received a similar email from ahmedkhan2225522@gmail.com on 7/28/22. Now I just received another email with a dark tone that is suggesting in an aggressive way that I need to pay him $500 for this report. I Googled it and it appears to be a scam. This report is easily found on the internet in tech support chats for platforms that are not Shopify and he likely copied and pasted it in to our emails. They advise you do not reply and definitely don’t pay them or have them do work on your site to “FIX” something that likely isn’t even a real problem but makes you feel there is something wrong. Here is a link to an article that explains the scam.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/02/09/beware-of-technical-experts-bombarding-you-with-bug-reports/

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