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Mastodon security update: every version prior to today's is vulnerable to remote user impersonation and takeover (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

we think any amount of detail would make it very easy to come up with an exploit

People who would create exploits for this definitely can't read the diffs and see what changed.

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Every barrier that slows down attacks a little is worth it when you are trying to buy time so people can apply emergency updates. It's not about stopping them from ever figuring it out.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 13 points 9 months ago

they're just delaying it by two weeks...

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 11 points 9 months ago

Depends on skill level and the exact nature of the flaw. There's definitely going to be a nonzero number of malicious people who lie in the middle distance "I can come up with a way to exploit flaws if I have a detailed trail of breadcrumbs" and "I can't be bothered to do an unlimited amount of work to track down how to do this, I have other malicious things on my schedule for today."