Alarm raised over broken authorization in Mozilla VPN client

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

. These all execute functions that should be authorized. For example, it's fundamentally insecure to let any local account on a system deactivate another user's VPN.security issue

According to Gerstner, the issue was privately disclosed to Mozilla on May 4, and SUSE heard nothing further until June 12, when its security team learned the flaw had been disclosed in"We asked upstream once more what their intentions are regarding coordinated disclosure but did not get a proper response," said Gerstner.

 

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