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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Gitlab issues patch for high severity account takeover vulnerability - The Untold Story

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GitLab has released patches for seven vulnerabilities, including a high-severity flaw that allowed threat actors to take over people’s accounts.

The highlight of the security advisory is an XSS weakness in the VS code editor (Web IDE), that threat actors can exploit via malicious pages. Although the attackers can abuse the flaw without authentication, the bug still requires victim interaction, making abusing the bug somewhat more complex.

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