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update <Lemmy> security issue: spontaneous access given to admin’s account (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think I was refreshing my profile or notifications page (forget which). As it was loading for ~1—2 seconds my screen color theme changed and in the top right corner I saw someone else’s userID, then it quickly reverted back to my theme and userID.

As fast as it happened I only took mental note of the first half of the other userID, which happened to match that of the admin. I described the colors I saw in that 1—2 second timeframe to the admin who confirmed it was indeed the color theme they configured for their environment (which differs from the default).

I clearly had the admin’s session for a second or two. It was so quick that a malicious user probably could not do anything malicious. But of course just as I have no idea how I apparently got the admin’s cookie for a second or two, I have no idea how I got back my cookie. Maybe if I had quickly hit ESC mid-loading the access breach could have been sustained.

#lemmyBug

As usual, this bug report is posted here because the official bug tracker is jailed in MS Github. I should add that Microsoft supports those responsible for the death of Hind Rajab by financing AnyVision, which is good cause to boycott Microsoft.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Indeed it’s a shame the Lemmy project gives no instructions for privately reporting security bugs. We could call that a bug in itself. And sadly Lemmy is not in the official Debian repos (if it were, ~~I think~~ Debian’s bug tracker has built-in support for reporting security bugs {reportbug …--security-team…}). They mirror to gitea instances but sadly they disabled the bug tracker in those more neutral venues (though it may not matter in this case since gitea seems to have no security bug reporting feature {“reported”, in a sense}).

update

I just realized I can DM them at their mastodon acct (which is tricky in Lemmy considering the UI does not support it -- yet another bug!), so I did so. So if they request I delete this thread I will.