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Re:A Single Vulnerability Can Bring Down the JavaScript Ecos... by hombre_fatal on Saturday June 08, 2024 @03:54PM (#40619837)
> would likely be quickly noticed and fixed

Fixed as in fixing the exploit that TFA is reporting? Isn’t that the point of their report?

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Re:A Single Vulnerability Can Bring Down the JavaScript Ecos... by hyperpape on Saturday June 08, 2024 @04:01PM (#40619873)
Perhaps, but it could also be fixed/mitigated by cycling the cache state and blocking bots. It might also be something that can be blocked in a web proxy.

It's interesting, but I share the thought that the impact is overstated.

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