[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] Toolserver.org email and web redirects down due to security issue

Sun Aug 23 22:06:02 UTC 2015

Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Earlier today we discovered a potential security issue in the labs
> instance running redirects for toolserver.org, and have taken the
> instance down. Both web and email redirects will be currently broken
> until further notice. We are investigating the issue and will update
> when we have more news.

> [...]

What is the status of this?  If there was a potential secu-
rity issue in the Puppet manifests, taking down the instance
allows to disclose the problem.  If the instance itself was
compromised, launching a new one and applying the role there
should take a rather short amount of time.

Tim