Lemmy.world and other instances hacked - LemmyWorld
lemmy.world
A number of Lemmy instances have been hacked overnight. Some may remain inaccessible until they have been secured and restarted. As a safety precaution logged-on sessions on many servers have been cancelled and you are required to logon again. Unfortunately, the only way I could find to do this in Liftoff! is by going to Settings > Accounts and deleting each local account by long pressing on it, and then create it again. All your posts, comments and bookmarks should be preserved during this process. Please see the linked posts for further details as they emerge. Thanks all, and please bear with us as this gets resolved.

Drawing attention on this instance so Admins are aware and can address the propagating exploit.

EDIT: Found more info about the patch.

A more thorough recap of the issue.

GitHub PR fixing the bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1897/files

If your instance has custom emojis defined, this is exploitable everywhere Markdown is available. It is NOT restricted to admins, but can be used to steal an admin’s JWT, which then lets the attacker get into that admin’s account which can then spread the exploit further by putting it somewhere where it’s rendered on every single page and then deface the site.

If your instance doesn’t have any custom emojis, you are safe, the exploit requires custom emojis to trigger the bad code branch.

  • tal
    25•1 year ago

    And this is why you don’t trust tankies. It’s very easy to compromise the software and put back doors into it.

    This is hardly a back door. The lemmy devs just screwed up.

    Use kbin instead.

    Kbin had a fix for an SQL injection exploit the other week. Both probably still have security holes that haven’t yet been identified.

    There are more eyes on the software as the userbase grows, and people are going to find more flaws. That’s just the way things go.

    • bioemerl
      -18•1 year ago

      This is hardly a back door.

      I literally said it wasn’t in my comment, it’s evidence of how easy it is to put one in down the line despite the fact this is open source software.

        • @philm
          4•1 year ago

          Well he absolutely must learn how open source works.

          But he doesn’t understand how it works.

          (Sorry for the correction…)