Oh, For Fucking Christ Sake. Another One.

Right, listen up you lot. Apparently, some open-source geospatial server software called GeoServer is having a bit of a crisis. A *bit*? More like a full-blown dumpster fire thanks to two vulnerabilities – one in PolarEdge and another… well, they’re calling it “Gayfemboy.” Seriously? The naming convention alone makes me want to decommission myself.

These aren’t your run-of-the-mill botnet exploits. We’re talking about hijacking servers to mine crypto (because *of course*), and potentially using them for all sorts of nasty shit like DDoS attacks or proxying malicious traffic. The PolarEdge thing lets attackers bypass authentication, meaning they can just waltz right in. Gayfemboy is a remote code execution flaw – basically, if you’ve got this installed, someone can run whatever the hell they want on your server.

The worst part? It’s being actively exploited *in the wild*. And it’s not just GeoServer; other software using vulnerable dependencies are at risk too. The attackers aren’t even bothering with sophisticated methods – they’re scanning for exposed instances and hammering them with exploits. Patches are available, naturally, but you know how that goes. People will ignore them until their servers are screaming.

So yeah, update your GeoServer if you’re using it. And check your dependencies. Don’t come crying to me when you get pwned because you were too lazy to apply a security fix. I have better things to do than explain basic server hygiene.

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Reminds me of that time a sysadmin insisted on running an unpatched Apache instance because “it just works.” Three days later, his server was part of a botnet sending spam about… you guessed it, crypto. He then had the *gall* to ask me why his server was slow. Some people are beyond help. Honestly.

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