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Did they execute the command on localhost or the remote? Because hey if they had privileges to root-nuke the target that's gotta count for something right? Lmao
The way this reads I think the company did not actually provide a good sandboxed environemt. So when they
rm -rf /'d the thing they actually deleted a lot of stuff the recruiters still needed (likely the pentest environments for other candidates). Because imo that's the only reason I can think of to just outright ban a candidate from applying for any other role at the company.I mean it reads like a shitpost to me lol.
To be honest, considering the role they're applying for, I would reject their job application too even if it occurred inside a sandboxed environment.
They should know exactly what
rm -rfdoes. The fact they didn't and they still arbitrary ran the command anyway... massive red flags. Could even say he failed to twart a social engineering attack.The two cases, they knew what it was and they did it maliciously. They didn't know what they were doing and got socially engineered in the process. Both cases are cause for failure.
To me it reads like the recruiter thought the person was a troll and banned them.
You should ban anyone who tries this regardless of the outcome. There is always a small chance they did it on purpose trying to cause damage. There is no benefit by giving them another chance, you just riks giving them the possibility of doing more damage. If the thing was a mistake, the person will learn from it and find another job.
We'll I'm this case too, if true, the person didn't know anything about the job they were aplyiyfor and tried to cheat their way into the company. Also not really great.
If the task would have been to find general security risks this would have counted. I mean, he did some serious harm, but he was able to find a security issue.
They did but it might have been a good idea to prove that the command works instead of actually doing it.
Yeah so is tossing a molotov on thier machines, "found a security issue not firproofing everything"
I think there is kind of an assumption that the scenario is "outside host gains privileged access" so there's not really a security issue with some attacker deleting root on their own box.
If it has been done properly you're right. If this also affected the host machine it is a security issue.