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Tailscale confirms the 'Tailworm' SSH flaws are real

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Tailscale has confirmed that the flaws dubbed Tailworm, affecting its SSH feature, are real, according to The Hacker News.

Tailscale's investigation page says most of what it found is privilege escalation and calls the issues serious. A fix is targeted within 24 hours, and no CVE or patched version was out yet when the post went up.

Why it mattersTailscale sits inside many company networks. Admins should follow the vendor's mitigation steps until the patch ships.

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