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PSA: Don't leave your 8188 exposed to the Internet

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Was doing a regular comfy/nodes upgrade when Codex noticed that something wrote a malicious `sitecustomize.py`. Apaprently I had my 0.0.0.0:8188 open through NAT by mistake. An attacker executed an API call that took advantage of a vulnerability in an EasyUse SaveText node to write a python hook ``…

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  1. 2026-09-03 17:08 · r/comfyui
    PSA: Don't leave your 8188 exposed to the Internet

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