7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2023-29218

Published: 03/04/2023 Updated: 11/04/2024
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm through ec83d01 allows malicious users 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.

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Github Repositories

The release of the Twitter algorithm, annotated for recsys

Awesome Twitter Algo 🐦 Curated by Igor Brigadir and Vicki Boykis An annotated look through the release of the Twitter algorithm, through the context of engineering and recsys, with notes from repo creators on significance of specific parts of the code Since it can be hard to parse through so much code and derive meaning and context, we do it for you! This code focuses on t