TruthSocial’s $11bn valuation rests on old Mastodon code which may be poorly maintained

Whatever people have paid for, it is not the engineering capability.

Click through to the entire thread because it is all worth a read and has several updates.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but #TruthSocial, which is running a forked version of Mastodon, does not from the source code appear to have appropriate mitigations in place for CVE-2023-36460, which theoretically allows attackers to create and overwrite any file Mastodon has access to, allowing Denial of Service and arbitrary Remote Code Execution https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36460 (probably other CVE’s as well, but some rely on federation which Truth Social doesn’t use?) #infosec

https://digipres.club/@ryanfb/112146904149736275

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