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   Kirino Kousaka (kirino@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 22:20:15 JST Kirino Kousaka

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   @DocScranton To be clear, you don’t have to worry about it as a single-user instance but still update!

   I discovered the exploit while thinking of how to make my insult bot send out insults faster, I had the idea of reusing previous Media Attachment IDs so that it didn’t have to repeatedly upload files.

   I tested this and it worked so on a whim I said “Huh, I wonder if I could POST someone else’s Media Attachment ID in my API call” and that worked. It was then I thought “Huh… these IDs look like they’re just a sequential series of numbers… “

   I then had a VERY devious idea to see if private chats and DMs used the same list, which I found out they do. I coupled both these pieces of information together and thought “I wonder if I could attach someone else’s private Media Attachment ID to a public post” and it turns out YES, YOU CAN

   In conclusion: On any public instances NO photos were actually private and it would only take a bad actor looping through all IDs in the object table until he found the photos for them to be leaked.

   My initial report can be found here: