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It seems crazy that no thanks or recognition has been given.

Is this because doing so might be seen as an admission of liability, and could be used in any legal cases that are brought?

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To give the benefit of the doubt, it appears he only contacted them less than 48 hours ago. Their first priority should correctly be to fix the problem. They could be discussing a bug bounty right now and just haven't finalized the email yet

“Thanks for coming to us with this, we’re looking at it right away” wouldn’t take a lot of time or commit then to anything

American readers may not have noticed that the dates are in European DD/MM format, so they thought disclosure was Sept 1 rather than Jan 9.

I 100% saw it as MM/DD and was wondering why it took them three months to write up the vulnerability and a month to patch it.

Thanks for the clarification

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