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Do you mean the specific exploit performed by the author has been fixed? Or the general vulnerability that this exploit was intended to demonstrate has been fixed? The article ends with a What's Next section discussing the difficulty of the latter, saying
and going into detail about the challenges for openSUSE OBS. Are you claiming those challenges have all been solved and exploits like this are no longer possible?
The authors found and reported vulnerabilities in Pagure and Open Build Service. These vulnerabilities have since been fixed.