News Score: Score the News, Sort the News, Rewrite the Headlines

Patch time: Critical GitLab vulnerability exposes 2FA-less users to account takeovers

GitLab admins should apply the latest batch of security patches pronto given the new critical account-bypass vulnerability just disclosed. Tracked as CVE-2023-7028, the maximum-severity bug exploits a change introduced in version 16.1.0 back in May 2023 that allowed users to issue password resets through a secondary email address. Attackers targeting vulnerable self-managed GitLab instances could use a specially crafted HTTP request to send a password reset email to an attacker-controlled, unver...

Read more at theregister.com

© News Score  score the news, sort the news, rewrite the headlines