CVE-2018-8971 describes a critical vulnerability in the Auth0 integration within GitLab versions prior to 10.3.9, 10.4.6, and 10.5.6. This misconfiguration allows unintended users to sign in, bypassing authentication. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), it presents a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity over the network. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage at this time.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 10.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 10.4.0, <= 10.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 10.5.0, <= 10.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.