Vulnerability Disclosure Debate

Look at the original announcement from earlier today. This was a known issue and responsible disclosure was exercised -- the issue didn't become public until 5 minutes after the embargo was lifted (i.e., 5 minutes after it was agreed the issue and patch would go public). Since it's so easy to exploit this bug, it'd be impossible to release a patch without people taking notice and immediately beginning to exploit vulnerable systems.Someone just did a really bad job vetting the p

Keeping it secret wouldn't have been very useful. The original issue was already well-known, and seeing the severity and media-exposure of the bug, it is very possible malicious actors studied the patch and independently found out about the problem that came with it. At this point, it is better to let the public at large know they are at risk than let the skiddies have fun with this pseudo-0-day.

I assume they haven't fixed it yet because they don't consider it to be severe enough to prioritize a fix.So the reporter waits >90 days, then publicly discloses. Isn't this exactly how it's supposed to work?

There's nothing stating they didn't inform them a while back and wait to give them a chance to patch it before disclosing it.

thanks for the clarification - I also read this as it took them a MONTH to fix the vulnerability.

For all we know, he disclosed it 4 days ago. Merely disclosing a vuln doesn't mean an appropriate amount of time has passed where it could be patched. Remember, real users' info is at stake.

The disclosure is irresponsible.The post published today contains information on how to exploit the bug with a working code for POC, confirmed to work.The windows patch is published today. It's gonna take weeks to propagate to the windows computers around the world.

Does google still do those security vulnerability reveal if the thing has not been fixed in 90 days? This was dixed in 147 days.

It's unbelievable to me that they waited over 3 months from when they became aware of this vulnerability until disclosing to effected organizations.

Where's the attempt to submit a patch to fix the problem before disclosing?