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This totally happened (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If the task would have been to find general security risks this would have counted. I mean, he did some serious harm, but he was able to find a security issue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think there is kind of an assumption that the scenario is "outside host gains privileged access" so there's not really a security issue with some attacker deleting root on their own box.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

If it has been done properly you're right. If this also affected the host machine it is a security issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

They did but it might have been a good idea to prove that the command works instead of actually doing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah so is tossing a molotov on thier machines, "found a security issue not firproofing everything"