Public flaws give attackers and defenders equal start

That’s the risk with this one: the flaws became public before the fix did, so both sides are starting at the same time. Attackers aren’t waiting for a working exploit. They’re building a list of every server on the internet that says it runs PHP, sorted by version, and the moment the fix is out, they will compare the old code with the new one to find the flaw,

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