Medium CVSS 6.4

Overview

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 10.6 prior to 16.9.7, starting from 16.10 prior to 16.10.5, and starting from 16.11 prior to 16.11.2 in which cross-site request forgery may have been possible on GitLab instances configured to use JWT as an OmniAuth provider.

Risk analysis

This vulnerability is rated 🟡 MEDIUM.

  • CVSS: 6.4 (MEDIUM)
  • Detected tags: csrf, jwt (tag impact: MODERATE)

Recommended actions:

  • CSRF tokens, SameSite=Strict for cookies, validate Origin/Referer.
  • Use strong algorithms (HS256/RS256), rotate secrets, short expiries.

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