Trust Crisis Due to Delayed Disclosure of Luarocks.org Security Vulnerability
Problem
Luarocks.org recently disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability, but the researcher did not contact the site operator directly and instead used an intermediary CISA report, leaving the vulnerability unpatched for a month and eroding user trust.
Pain points
- Delayed vulnerability disclosure exposing user devices to risk
- Lack of direct communication between researcher and maintainer
- Absence of timely patch release after public disclosure
Questions to verify
- Are there any public patches or mitigations available?
- Has the operator established direct communication with the researcher after disclosure?
- Has user risk perception been effectively communicated?
Evidence
quote · @匿名
Very good write up! Kudos.I recently wrote about an RCE exploit in the game Project Zomboid (which uses Lua for mods), which also used loadstring as an initial entry point for the exploit chain, but since the Lua interpreter was fully Java, byte-code memory manipulation shenanigans were out of the question for me and I had to pivot in a more traditional way.The fact that loadstring can also load straight up bytecode was news to me though, that's interesting to know.
fact
Luarocks.org remote code execution exploit
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