they had a priviledge escalation vulnerability that requires the attacker to already be a part of the tailnet, and more specifically allows a user-to-root escalation devices the attacker can tailscale ssh to.
> Not trying to play down the vuln (its important), but its not a free-for-all RCE that some ppl are acting like it is. [1]
eMudhra/TLS certificates have nothing to do with this (?).
How they handle the communication on the incident is crucially as important as remediating the original cause.
Just the fact that they are doing this means I will probably never use this service or recommend this service to anyone else.
The founder of the company has already emailed you with details and their support team is around for you to ask any follow-up questions. Also the bug/exploit has been fully fixed
At this point are you saying you would actually be upset and leave because the incident on their status page has been marked as resolved?
- did they just take the affected API offline?
- or did they just disable the account of the attacker?
- or is the exploit actually being fixed?
Environment variables are sensible data, and marking a security incident as resolved with that little detail is quite a take. Even changelog entries for harmless bug fixes are more detailed.
Their customers now have an incident that will be resolved once their secrets are rotated. Maybe they also need to do previous intrusion forensics… In any case, not triggers problem anymore.
I was able to patch before it was exploited but that definitely made me question the service.
But could also be any of the recent supply chain attacks hitting a dev too i guess
There is a difference between using AI to find bugs in written software than using AI to write bug free software, completely different set of skills and outcomes. Most of the high profile stuff you see is AI being driven by people who would have solved the same problem just in slower time going through the code. AI is as good as the operator.
Im now thinking about just running tart VM's on my mac to do my regular stuff from.