Comment

Comment by mmsc

>Mitigate by using fail2ban?

In theory, this could be used (much quicker than the mentioned days/weeks) to get local privilege escalation to root, if you already have some type of shell on the system already. I would assume that fail2ban doesn't block localhost.

parent mmsc 2 years ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton