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Over 5,300 GitLab servers exposed to zero-click account takeover attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Check gitlab-rails/production_json.log for HTTP requests to the /users/password path with params.value.email consisting of a JSON array with multiple email addresses.

Jesus Christ. Their frontend was sending a list of recipients to the backend. That's an intern developer level of fuck up, in their login system, no less.

If this got past them, it's a sign of deep problems.

[โ€“] akrot 4 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, that's the rookiest mistake.

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