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"Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions"

Justin Steven

CommunityBSides Canberra 202555 minAdvancedOpen on YouTube ↗

Justin Steven details "Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions".

Summary

BSides Canberra 2025 talk by Justin Steven on a 2020 fwupd/LVFS security research incident. Registered a dangling legacy AWS S3 bucket used by Linux Vendor Firmware Service clients, combined with CVE-2020-10759 PGP signature-verification bypass in fwupd before 1.4.0 that could enable malicious firmware metadata delivery.

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