A Thirty-Seven-Minute Vulnerability

Before StarArc could publish a crisis notice, Haiyue's story reached the top of the news feeds. ORACLE REMOTE-EXECUTION FLAW EXPOSES MILLIONS OF ENTERPRISE RECORDS. A blurry video showed an attacker typing one sentence before a system terminal appeared on a test server. Three suppliers announced “precautionary risk isolation” and cut off StarArc's image registry, certificate verification, and monitoring components. Every customer asked the same question: Was the vulnerability real? When Lin returned on a temporary visitor badge, everyone was waiting for Su to deny it. She did not. “We cannot deny it yet,” she said. “The recording may be authentic.”