I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission.
The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system().
It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.
30.03.2024 17:13
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