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CVE-2018-8971

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Auth0 integration in GitLab before 10.3.9, 10.4.x before 10.4.6, and 10.5.x before 10.5.6 has an incorrect omniauth-auth0 configuration, leading to signing in unintended users.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• GitLab: through 10.3.8; from 10.4.0 through 10.4.5; from 10.5.0 through 10.5.5

References

• https://about.gitlab.com/2018/03/20/critical-security-release-gitlab-10-dot-5-dot-6-released/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4206
• https://about.gitlab.com/2018/03/20/critical-security-release-gitlab-10-dot-5-dot-6-released/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4206

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