DevOps platform GitLab patched a critical-severity flaw found in its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) solutions, which could grant malicious users access to restricted information.
The flaw, described as a “SAML authentication bypass”, is tracked as CVE-2024-45409, and carries the perfect severity score of 10/10. Short Assertion Markup Language (SAML), is a web-based authentication protocol facilitating, among other things, the single sign-on (SSO) feature.
