Security News > 2020 > April > Researcher Earns $20,000 From GitLab for Critical Vulnerability
A researcher has earned $20,000 from GitLab after reporting a critical vulnerability that could have been exploited to obtain sensitive information from a server and to execute arbitrary code.
The vulnerability was discovered in March by William Bowling, who noticed that an attacker could obtain arbitrary files from a server when moving an issue from one GitLab project to another.
As GitLab developers pointed out, an attacker could have exploited the vulnerability by creating their own project or group and moving an issue from one project to another.
In recent months, Bowling earned a total of more than $50,000 from GitLab for several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities.
GitLab reported in December 2019 that it had paid out over half a million dollars through its bug bounty program over the past year.
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