• @mumblerfish
    2•8 months ago

    If the above decides to continue, the code appears to be parsing the symbol tables in memory. This is the quite slow step that made me look into the issue.

    That is from the original find. Not sure the relevance of it and this being proof for it being “on purpose”. But that is the origin of the slowness.

    • @TangledHyphae
      1•8 months ago

      I doubt that was intentional, they would likely want to hide that latency but the CPU time required to scan everything just is what it is.

      https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3kowjkx2njy2b

      The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server’s host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system().

      It’s RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.