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by sveiss 1795 days ago
Definitely a bug. The Unix equivalent would be a package update silently making /etc/shadow world readable, exposing the hashed passwords of local users.

Not a big deal for a single user machine — there’s nothing you can do with this that you can’t do some other way as a local admin/root — but not good if you have untrusted, non-admin user accounts.