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I agree the media frenzy was overblown but it seems legit at this point.

Network devices were getting popped. NAS were also.

They’re overhyping every god damn bug they can because they know most people won’t know how bad it actually is

Where is Anthropic doing this? The one that finds the vulnerability are not the ones that assigns it a CVSS score. CVSS is calculated with a standardized format, and is not mean to be a measure of risk. So this is no the AI companies saying how bad the vulnerabilities are, but rather the owners/maintainers of the code.

Hell, they don’t even manage to understand proper bug disclosure practices.

Have you ever stopped to consider previous bug disclosure practices aren't as applicable? If anyone can find bugs using AI, then even if Anthropic or OpenAI finds a vulnerability, they can't know for sure they are the first. Even if they are the first, it's only a matter of time before the next people find it even if the first discovery was never publicly disclosed.

There have also been countless bugs given directly to companies, and fixed without a big blow up or news spectacle. You didn't hear about those, because they didn't blow up. So you are going to have a level of confirmation bias.

Why couldn't it be that there are just a ton of really bad vulnerabilities that have never been discovered until a tool like AI came by to find them? There is nothing special about Anthropic or OpenAI, they are just the fastest moving with this new technology. Why couldn't the bugs they find be just as bad as they are claimed to be, especially when severity is often not determined by the AI company anyway

If we had everything in ansible it would be 5 minutes

Ansible at the day-job takes about 45 min to do a patch. As someone who's used a fair number of alternatives, maybe consider anything else on the planet?

But, seriously. The response to this particular sploit wasn't really "config management"-y. It was a simple process that cron generally handled anyway, and network segregation and firewalling allowed us to prioritize easily. My worry is that there are some core architectural decisions you may need to revisit in the post-mortem on this, because there may be some fundamental changes required to get sensible wins in the future.

(If you're on containers, I weep for your validation challenges; also, get bazel)

Ubuntu is notoriously finicky as a server. multiple issues with how system configuration is different from other servers like Debian, redhat, etc. firewall used to be an absolute terror. also, as described, your patch levels are tailored to the whims of a corporate entity that historically has sided with desktop stability and experience over server stability and performance.

while we're at it, canonical captures and sells system information like Microsoft does. by using Ubuntu, you become the product. IDK how much you know about companies that sell their consumers data, but typically they put profits over security.

I've worked for a handful of MSP/CSP vendors over the years and they only offer Ubuntu as a server option with one big caveat. you are responsible for the maintenance of the system. lo and behold, four years later they always come crying about how they're about to fail an audit because it's never been updated, or is misconfigured, or was hacked because they installed a bad library, ad nauseam.

from my own experience using it, though aged, it came with a service that was listening on port 3306. was it mysql? nope. what was it? dunno. I killed everything on that system that wasn't required by the kernel. still listening. couldn't install a database on it, so it was wiped and I never used it again.

simply put, Ubuntu is a desktop first OS. if you use it as a server you're going to have a bad time because statistically speaking only amateurs use it that way.

Difficult as in unlikely that the exploit works or difficult to write an exploit?

Difficult as in it's a race condition that can theoretically be exploited when you get the timing right. But timing, if it's not on a well-known isolated system right before you in some lab, depends on a million details, some –once we are talking about real-life examples– outside your control.