Re:Mailgun: Public Security Disclosure
by junon on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:36AM
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Ehhhh not convinced that's a fair comparison.
In Chalk (node.js library for terminal coloring via escape codes) we had a "vulnerability" reported to us that inputs to our library that had malicious escapes were passed through and thus our library allowed RCE.
Never in the docs did we claim we sanitized inputs, nor should we - the net result is that the library would be slower and bulkier for the 99% case and protect only a fraction of the remainder from any sort of real attack - and those users should probably be doing their own sanitization anyway.
Is that really our fault? No, not really. I don't think that if mailgun doesn't support it, should it be considered a vulnerability. GP had it right - could be a cool feature but this is not some oversight unless they market that as being a security measure.
In Chalk (node.js library for terminal coloring via escape codes) we had a "vulnerability" reported to us that inputs to our library that had malicious escapes were passed through and thus our library allowed RCE.
Never in the docs did we claim we sanitized inputs, nor should we - the net result is that the library would be slower and bulkier for the 99% case and protect only a fraction of the remainder from any sort of real attack - and those users should probably be doing their own sanitization anyway.
Is that really our fault? No, not really. I don't think that if mailgun doesn't support it, should it be considered a vulnerability. GP had it right - could be a cool feature but this is not some oversight unless they market that as being a security measure.