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Vulnerabilities found in NASA’s open source software
Vulnerabilities in open source software developed and used by NASA could be exploited to breach their systems, a security researcher claims.
Vulnerabilities in open source software developed and used in-house by NASA could be exploited to breach their systems, claims Leon Juranić, security researcher and founder of cybersecurity startup ThreatLeap. “I was quite surprised by the number and severity of security vulnerabilities that I discovered in such a short time by simply grepping for ‘questionable’ stuff in the code – especially since some of these software projects are used in NASA as a part of space missions or data processing,” Juranić told us. A phone call to NASA’s security operation center (SOC) revealed that the agency’s official policy instructs them not reply to vulnerability reports made by individuals outside of the organization.
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