GitLab Patches Critical Account Takeover Vulnerability
According to the company, in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) versions prior to 14.7.7, 14.8.5, and 14.9.2, a hardcoded password was set when the account was registered using an OmniAuth provider. The critical-severity bug, which is tracked as CVE-2022-1162 (CVSS score of 9.1), could allow attackers to take over accounts. In addition…