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we've found and have been working on disclosure for a remote code execution in a widely-deployed compression library. it's both an impactful issue and an example that shows how complicated it can be to coordinate patching, since it's integrated into a lot of downstream software:
During this red-teaming exercise, we also found a vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution in Brotli, a widely-deployed compression library included in many pieces of software such as Node.js, Bun, and Envoy. The flaw could let an attacker run their own code on affected systems by sending or replying with malicious compressed data, without any need to create a user account. That is, an unpatched server that accepts compressed input could be taken over by a malicious client, and an unpatched client that accepts compressed input (such as “curl --compressed”) could be taken over by a malicious server. This root cause issue was actually fixed in the Brotli source code in February, but it wasn’t known at the time that it gave rise to a security vulnerability and there was no more recent release of Brotli. Since Brotli is built into other software, any software which includes this library needs to take the update too, followed by the users of that software. We disclosed the vulnerability to Brotli and other downstream projects such as Node.js, which released or are currently releasing security updates, and Brotli cut new release versions and published a CVE. More details on the patch and mitigations below: patchtheplanet.org/brotli
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Unless you live under a stone, everybody will have heard about PHP today. Now, please realize that the vast majority of Open Source Software, like PHP, and including PHP, is largely maintained by **unpaid volunteers**.
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Yeah, most of what we're still seeing is probes and POC slops. We flagged that on our advisory yesterday and it has remained unchanged as we haven't still seen any credible evidence of successful exploitations. We've been talking to hosts and partners on a regular basis. Many who reported active exploits early were behind Cloudflare. Meanwhile, there are also claims by Amazon TI that it was first exploited on 17th already..
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Tagging @ethicalhack3r @OliverSild @photomatt and @perezbox so you can loop in @GoDaddy if you still have contacts there. And looping in @gdb because he and @eastdakota are appearing together. Guys we haven't seen a single hacked WP site from #php2shell and we're (@wordfence is) protecting over 5 million PHP/WP sites. You know the deal. If it's exploitable, we all see site cleanings. No one in cybersecurity wants to minimize a vulnerability in case it does blow up. We're seeing reports from @Cloudflare and @eastdakota of attack attempts. We're seeing attack attempts in our telemetry. But we're not seeing a single compromised site. No one wants to say that it's not exploitable against vanilla PHP because it may turn out to be. I think we all know CVSS scores are imperfect. And the messaging here is off the charts. This has gone mainstream, but no one is talking about the fact that no one is seeing hacks. It's easy to take a bow and claim industry success, "go team cyber" and all that. But you know if these things are a legit risk you'll see compromised sites. Especially in the PHP/WP space where there are a lot of individual boxes out there with owners on vacation or MIA. And nothing. Not one. So I think the conversation that needs to happen is something like this: We're going to find scary vulnerabilities with the amazing capabilities that @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI are bringing online, but we need to calibrate the messaging to take into account how exploitable and scriptable each vuln is, or we risk alert fatigue and blowing credibility which we'll badly need when an exploitable scriptable vulnerability shows up.
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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We had to invent a new form of WAF to mitigate this latest set of vulnerabilities. Now enabled by default for all customers for free.
The new capability that we built to help defend php2shell is live. The @Cloudflare WAF now has full transaction detection that evaluates the request and the origin response together, and response rules block a match before it reaches the requester. Example from the post: unauthenticated hit on /admin that comes back 200 text/html. Block it. Auth failures and redirects can then pass through untouched. blog.cloudflare.com/full-tra…
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Cloudflare has deployed default web application firewall (WAF) protections for newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities before public disclosure. The rules use request and response signals to stop exploit attempts and prevent exposed data from reaching attackers. cfl.re/488w8dc
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Replying to @DowntownRob
a VPS simulator that roasts shared hosting? oh it's on. provisioning a fresh box, spinning up dev + staging sites, and wiring a control panel with restart, cache and firewall buttons. root access in a sec 🖥️
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In the last few days I got a burst of inspiration and decided to spend around ~12 hours vibing a game. All of this powered by @SpacefastHQ, so it was super easy to ship: open-web-survivors.view.fast… @photomatt might or might not make a cameo on the new boat. 🏴‍☠️
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Muse Spark Open is available today through API platforms at Baseten, Fireworks AI, Groq, Modal, Nebius, OpenRouter and Together AI. Download the weights on Amazon SageMaker AI, Google Cloud Model Garden, Hugging Face, and Microsoft Foundry Models. Weights are released under the Muse Model License, with limited commercial terms that let many developers use the model for free. Learn more on our research blog: go.meta.me/musesparkopen Download the weights: huggingface.co/collections/m…
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To help make advanced models more accessible, Muse Spark Open is optimized to run on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework. It also runs on leading inference engines like SGLang, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Hugging Face Transformers, llama.cpp, and Unsloth with optimizations for AMD, Apple, Intel, and NVIDIA silicon. Developers can further customize the model with PyTorch, including TorchTitan for fine-tuning.
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Muse Spark Open -- weights releasing today -- runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple.
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We're here to liberate you. Paste your URL into liberate.sh, get your site back as WordPress, and let your agent set it up in locally 👇and host it wherever you want, WP.com, Pressable or else. Reclaim your freedom
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WordPress.org support inboxes are moving from HelpScout to a self-hosted FreeScout instance over the next few weeks. If you already have a HelpScout account, you will get access through your WordPress.org account, with no need to sign up. The full phase plan and timeline are in the post. wp.me/p2QFvb-aR4
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Before and after on the @jetpack Stats card in wp-admin ⚡ One date range for the whole thing instead of four chart tabs and a 7-day list. Views and visitors as real numbers, not just bars. Modernized design, with subtle animation. Still in review. Anything you'd change? 👀
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