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2024-09-19 05:07
GitLab has released patches to address a critical flaw impacting Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that could result in an authentication bypass. The vulnerability is rooted in the ruby-saml library (CVE-2024-45409, CVSS score: 10.0), which could allow an attacker to log in as an arbitrary user within the vulnerable system. It was addressed by the maintainers last week. The
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Related Vulnerability
DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2024-09-10 | CVE-2024-45409 | Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature vulnerability in multiple products The Ruby SAML library is for implementing the client side of a SAML authorization. | 9.8 |