Alarm raised over Mozilla VPN: Wonky authorization check lets users cause havoc

A security engineer at Linux distro maker SUSE has published an advisory for a flaw in the Mozilla VPN client for Linux that has yet to be addressed in a publicly released fix because the disclosure process went off the rails. In a post to the Openwall security mailing list, Matthias Gerstner describes a broken authentication check in Mozilla VPN client v2.14.1, released on May 30.

Source: The Register

 


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