The full description of the bug is in the linked issue above, but the short
version is: Our CreatePrivateMessageReport endpoint had a bug that would allow
anyone, not just the recipient, to create a report, and then receive the details
about private messages. This allowed anyone to iterate over ids, creating
thousands of reports in order to receive details about private messages. Since
those reports are visible to admins, it would be easy to discover if someone was
abusing this, and luckily we haven’t heard of anyone doing so on production
instances (so far). If you haven’t, please be sure to upgrade to at least 0.19.1
for the fix. Many thanks to @Nothing4You for finding this one.
For those using Private message on Lemmy, there is a major vulnerability. It seems that this instance still runs 18.5
I know that our beloved admins are volunteers and busy, so I don’t blame them for not updating, but while waiting for the update be aware that your PM are as public as your comments
Lemmy has pretty lousy security in general, so really nobody should be storing any data on their Lemmy account that is important. Password, username, and any personally identifying information should never be shared across multiple sites or with other users, but this is just cybersecurity 100.
Lemmy has pretty lousy security in general, so really nobody should be storing any data on their Lemmy account that is important. Password, username, and any personally identifying information should never be shared across multiple sites or with other users, but this is just cybersecurity 100.