alt Hacker NewsIsn't the issue here that they used something like Artifactory for this purpose in the first place? It is not intended as a robust and secure packet manager for sandboxes. Why would any human look for vulnerabilities in Artifactory at all? So the scenario never arose where a human was incentivizied to scrutinize Artifactory, something that was never needed because it was never intended for the purpose of being a packet manager in a secure sandbox.
Means the problem lies elsewhere: deciding to use it at all. That points again towards the lack of basic SysAdmin skills.
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> the lack of basic SysAdmin skills
If we exclude those who lack "basic" level skills, what solution would most typically be used by someone who has "basic" level skills for this use case? And what solution for someone with "expert" (or medium) level skills?
Right, that’s basically what I’m saying. There’s not zero use for an attack like this, but it’s not a likely situation.
Said another way: if Artifactory was somehow a common gatekeeper between grounded techy teenagers and their access to internet porn, this would have been found ages ago.