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CVE-2013-4580

Improper Authentication

Published: May 12, 2014 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4580
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html

GitLab before 5.4.2, Community Edition before 6.2.4, and Enterprise Edition before 6.2.1, when using a MySQL backend, allows remote attackers to impersonate arbitrary users and bypass authentication via unspecified API calls.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
GitlabGitlab*5.4.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab0.8.0 (including)0.8.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab0.9.1 (including)0.9.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab0.9.4 (including)0.9.4 (including)
GitlabGitlab0.9.6 (including)0.9.6 (including)
GitlabGitlab1.0.0 (including)1.0.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab1.0.1 (including)1.0.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab1.0.2 (including)1.0.2 (including)
GitlabGitlab1.1.0 (including)1.1.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab1.2.0 (including)1.2.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab1.2.1 (including)1.2.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab1.2.2 (including)1.2.2 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.0.0 (including)2.0.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.1.0 (including)2.1.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.2.0 (including)2.2.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.3.0 (including)2.3.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.3.1 (including)2.3.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.4.0 (including)2.4.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.5.0 (including)2.5.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.6.0 (including)2.6.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.7.0 (including)2.7.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.8.0 (including)2.8.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.8.1 (including)2.8.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.9.0 (including)2.9.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab2.9.1 (including)2.9.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab3.0.0 (including)3.0.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab3.0.1 (including)3.0.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab3.0.2 (including)3.0.2 (including)
GitlabGitlab3.0.3 (including)3.0.3 (including)
GitlabGitlab3.1.0 (including)3.1.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab4.0.0 (including)4.0.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab4.1.0 (including)4.1.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab4.2.0 (including)4.2.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab5.0.0 (including)5.0.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab5.0.1 (including)5.0.1 (including)
GitlabGitlab5.1.0 (including)5.1.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab5.2.0 (including)5.2.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab5.3.0 (including)5.3.0 (including)
GitlabGitlab5.4.0 (including)5.4.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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