• nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    5 hours ago

    It’s kind of an iffy assertion. That’s maybe the number of files it scans looking for misconfigurations it can exploit, but I’d bet there’s a lot of overlap in the potential contents of those files (either because of cascading configurations, or because they’re looking for the same file in slightly different places to mitigate distro differences). So the number of possible exploits is likely far fewer.

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      1 hour ago

      maybe the number of files it scans looking for misconfigurations

      So how did it get into the system to be able to scan configuration files?