The XZ backdoor CVE-2024-3094
On the 29th of March 2024, the high-stakes investment and prolonged campaign to plant a backdoor in the Linux software library liblzma to gain access to multiple operating systems via Linux distributions was carried out by a malicious actor.
🎯 Vulnerability: Web Security Vulnerability
💡 Defense Fix: Implement strict input validation, contextual output encoding, and enforce least-privilege authorization controls.