CVE-2023-29218

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-29218
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-04-03 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:11:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm through ec83d01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (reduction of reputation score) by arranging for multiple Twitter accounts to coordinate negative signals regarding a target account, such as unfollowing, muting, blocking, and reporting, as exploited in the wild in March and April 2023. NOTE: Vendor states that allowing users to unfollow, mute, block, and report tweets and accounts and the impact of these negative engagements on Twitter’s ranking algorithm is a conscious design decision, rather than a security vulnerability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Twitter Recommendation Algorithm All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Elon Musk on Twitter: "@boriquagato Who is behind these botnets? Million dollar bounty if convicted." / Twitter MISC twitter.com
How the Twitter Algorithm works in 2023 MISC steventey.com
GitHub - twitter/the-algorithm at ec83d01dcaebf369444d75ed04b3625a0a645eb9 MISC github.com
Recommendation Algorithm Manipulation via mass blocks · Issue #1386 · twitter/the-algorithm · GitHub MISC github.com
Aakash Gupta ???? Product Growth Guy on Twitter: "4. Mutes & unfollows hurt All of the following hurt your engagement: • Mutes • Blocks • Unfollows • Spam reports • Abuse reports https://t.co/Viq19WGgg0" / Twitter MISC twitter.com
Kaptain Kobold @[email protected] on Twitter: "@steventey So reporting a tweet and then blocking the user really screws up their ability to be seen? A useful thing to know." / Twitter MISC twitter.com
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