React2Shell RCE flaw exploited by Chinese hackers hours after disclosure


Just as the experts predicted, cybercriminals are now actively exploiting the critical severity vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC) that was discovered late last week. To make matters worse, the crooks observed abusing the bug seem to be working for the Chinese government.

Late last week, the React team published a security advisory detailing a pre-authentication bug in multiple versions of multiple packs, affecting RCS. The versions that are affected include 19.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0, react-server-dom-webpack, react-server-dom-parcel, and react-server-dom-turbopack. ).

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