points by ForHackernews 2 days ago | 0 comments
Two things can be true:
1) A motivated human eager for $500 and internet cred can exploit a vuln (perhaps using AI tooling to help)
2) The vuln is not easily exploitable at scale by driveby bots.
1) A motivated human eager for $500 and internet cred can exploit a vuln (perhaps using AI tooling to help)
2) The vuln is not easily exploitable at scale by driveby bots.
[–] NitpickLawyer 2 days ago
[–] ForHackernews 2 days ago
> The failed leaks highlight a broader challenge: building a generalized exploit that works reliably across PHP versions and deployment configurations is difficult. The kit’s B1 layout was calculated for the official php:8.4.26-apache image with a 128 MB memory limit. Other instances like our Roundcube honeypot ran the same PHP version from a different build, with additional extensions and a 64 MB memory limit. These differences can affect heap layout and memory reuse, potentially preventing the leak from working as expected.
It sounds like it's hard to put together a generalized write-once-run-everywhere version of the exploit, so you need a human or an expensive LLM backing each attack and trying to adjust for the particulars of that target's deployment.