Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking

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Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking

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Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.

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