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Hi folks, welcome back to another AI briefing.
For those who don't know me, my name is Tom and we do regular AI news snippets, updates,
insight and all that type of stuff that's direct to your podcast feed and hopefully
reasonably regular.
So today I wanted to talk briefly about the reactor shell bug and how this impacts the AI
world because it may not be immediately apparent to everybody.
For anyone that hasn't seen the React to Shell critical vulnerability, it's been a huge
bug that's been doing the rounds the last week or so.
And the problem with React to Shell is that almost every sort of server-side rendering
React version is exposed to this, even some stuff it's not.
And then services like Next.js that heavily leverage the React service.
all have this this bug which allows for anybody to basically be able to take control of
the shell.
of reminds me of a PHP world except you know more modernistic but you know when there used
to be heavily unpatched PHP services that would just end up like exposing shells to users
and all that type of thing.
Reactor shell is no different in reality people can send
requests to endpoints and get access to like unchecked shell access on any remote service,
which of course in the real in the grand scheme of things is not great when it comes to,
well, building any web service basically on the React framework.
Now, this applies to AI in a very specific way.
The way that these vulnerabilities are exposed these days, it makes it very easy for
malicious actors
to take an AI model that's got no check balances and safeguards, hopefully not the ones
that are hosted like the foundational models and that type of stuff, but it allows them to
then build out services that can go and check a whole range of websites super easily,
super efficiently, tweak it to see if there's different ways in.
And that threat from AI generated exploitation techniques is real.
and it will grow over time as well.
Those examples already of different organizations using AI models to try and gain access
to servers around the globe.
And so if you suddenly got a bug that's like supremely critical in terms of exposing the
inner workings of your server to any actor that's on the planet.
who can create this critical vulnerability or exploit this critical vulnerability, it's
gonna be something that's gonna be leveraged swiftly.
And the fact that you can then use AI to try and manipulate the requests, the access in a
way that's gonna be deemed useful to the threat actors is something that businesses as a
whole
you know, even ones who don't care about AI or have no interest in using AI, businesses as
a whole have to become aware of this because these threat models will continue to expand.
The attack services and the attack vectors will continue to change, also expand and be
exploited in different ways.
And it means that as an organization, you need to be ready for the next round of threats.
and vulnerabilities coming in and be able to patch them quickly and effectively.
Of course, you may not be the software vendor, but it does mean if you're running web
services or things that can be accessed either internally or externally by people who you
may not want to give access to your networks, those services need patching.
They need patching fast to make sure you stay ahead of the game.
So thank you for the support.
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