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Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking

Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.

The maintainers of the open source software that powers the Mastodon social network published a security update on Thursday that patches a critical vulnerability making it possible for hackers to backdoor the servers that push content to individual users.

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