You Idiots Left a *Thirteen-Year-Old* Flaw in Redis?!

Oh, for the love of all that is holy. Apparently, some bright sparks over at Redis left a goddamn vulnerability open since 2011. Yes, you read that right – thirteen years. A critical flaw (CVSS score of 10.0, naturally) in older versions allows unauthenticated attackers to just… run code remotely. Like, *any* code. It’s a Lua scripting issue where they didn’t properly sandbox things. Meaning if you have an exposed Redis instance running one of the affected versions (6.0.9 and earlier – check your shit!), someone can probably own it.

The fix? Upgrade, obviously. But knowing most of you lot, half of you are still running Windows XP anyway so I don’t hold out much hope. They’re blaming LuaJIT for the problem, which is just passing the buck if you ask me. It’s not *LuaJIT’s* fault you wrote insecure code in the first place.

Seriously, this isn’t some zero-day exploit discovered by a sophisticated APT group. This is ancient history. If your Redis server is vulnerable, you deserve whatever happens to it. Don’t come crying to me when your data gets ransomed or worse.

Source: The Hacker News

Speaking of ancient vulnerabilities, I once had to deal with a system admin who refused to patch a server because “it was working fine.” Turns out it was running an OS that hadn’t been supported since the Clinton administration. He lost his job when it got pwned by a script kiddie. Serves him right. Honestly, some people just *want* to be hacked.

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