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TootRoot | Mastodon had a Critical Security Vulnerability

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TootRoot | Mastodon had a Critical Security Vulnerability

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Mastodon had a Critical Security Vulnerability

In this video I discuss the recent security updates to Mastodon to fix critical security vulnerabilities that allowed for cross site scripting through oEmbed...

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/551085

Security advisorys: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security

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For anybody wondering what the Mastodon security issue is - CVE-2023-36460, you can send a toot which makes a webshell on instances that process said toot. #CVE202336460 #TootRoot

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/110667416012211236

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