Twitter for Android Security Vulnerability

Re:Twitter for Android Security Vulnerability by EE84M3i on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @01:31PM (#24063316)

Strangely, I got a notification for this on twitter.com on Win 10 Chrome and it said "you are no longer using a vulnerable version of Anrdoid on this device".[1] I do use Twitter for Android on my phone, so maybe they sent the notifications to anyone using it but they forgot it could be displayed in the web interface too.

I find the "Our understanding" language strange. Presumably this number comes from some kind of metrics, but it seems like a bit of CYA language?

Still, appreciate the heads up for something they AFAIK didn't have any obligation to give a notification for.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/8dJ9Eq3.png

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Re:Twitter for Android Security Vulnerability by dijit on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @02:57PM (#24064252)

I got this notification on my iOS device, I have never used twitter on Android. I think they just sent it out to everyone.

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Re:Twitter for Android Security Vulnerability by cjbprime on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @02:15PM (#24063814)

I got it on my Mac laptop. I have an Android phone, but it's running Android 10, which isn't vulnerable.

I wonder what the actual vulnerability was. The article links to an entire bulletin of fixes.

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