Post AR5arApSeUW5WSSw40 by zhuowei@notnow.dev
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(DIR) Post #AR4dpwSOhshBMap2O0 by zhuowei@notnow.dev
2022-12-28T18:34:42.199219Z
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A climate-controlled vault at the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) holds the reference critical security bug for calibrating the CVE severity 10.0 score
(DIR) Post #AR4ld4u4n6yjQc96Bc by zhuowei@notnow.dev
2022-12-28T20:02:00.802633Z
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CVE-1999-0002, the reference 10.0 severity bug, is stored in a a triple-locked vault at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.https://needforshell-site.glitch.me
(DIR) Post #AR4muMUWkjXiqy06sK by thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2022-12-28T20:04:51Z
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@zhuowei What many don’t know that it’s a copy of the ur-bug, which was created in Paris in the wake of the French Revolution.
(DIR) Post #AR4oEMfdtbG39gIm2K by Rairii@haqueers.com
2022-12-28T20:22:28Z
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@zhuowei isn't the reference 10.0 severity bug actually CVE-2000-0884, ye olde IIS unicode U+C0AF RCE? ;)
(DIR) Post #AR4ofWv7taFMlMUuy8 by FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange
2022-12-28T20:33:36Z
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@zhuoweiShouldn't they also have a CVSS 0.0 bug for reference?
(DIR) Post #AR4sPOdpJCNOGky5tQ by karl@infosec.exchange
2022-12-28T21:10:32Z
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@zhuowei I had no idea! NIST is truly an impressive organization.(jokes aside, NIST really is an amazing org)
(DIR) Post #AR4sPP8JTqlLnJERPc by zhuowei@notnow.dev
2022-12-28T21:17:58.081212Z
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@karl National Institute Space Telescope
(DIR) Post #AR4viwe9Oyth6D8Ii0 by jwz@mastodon.social
2022-12-28T21:51:33Z
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@zhuowei Relatedly, I believe the platinum-iridium reference CONS cell is still stored in Paris. https://jwz.org/b/yiSc
(DIR) Post #AR4yTTe3FM6qffP0xE by andrea@tryste.ro
2022-12-28T22:24:25Z
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@zhuowei Right next to the ISO Standard Morris Worm
(DIR) Post #AR5QCvmw9edXkXSPQW by georgewherbert@sfba.social
2022-12-29T02:57:39Z
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@zhuowei The vault *used* to contain it; the smart climate control system sensors unwittingly crossed the airgap architecture boundaries and the vulnerability is now out in the wild again…
(DIR) Post #AR5arAJCaQiDuPNAmW by gudenau@fosstodon.org
2022-12-29T05:34:31Z
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@zhuowei They have always had awful names? Cool.
(DIR) Post #AR5arApSeUW5WSSw40 by zhuowei@notnow.dev
2022-12-29T05:36:01.166084Z
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@gudenau OK, the name for CVE-1999-0002 was one I made up... but CVE-1999-0001 did have a proper fancy name: https://twitter.com/TauPan/status/1480428519373033478