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GitLab Email Addresses Can Be Weaponized for Supply Chain Attacks
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GitLab user email addresses embed highly privileged tokens that could enable supply-chain attacks.
Dark Reading reports that incoming email addresses GitLab automatically assigns to each user contain highly privileged access tokens. Attackers who obtain those addresses could use the embedded tokens for supply-chain attacks. The available report does not name a CVE and does not say exploitation has been observed.
Key facts
- GitLab auto-assigns each user an incoming email address.
- Those addresses contain highly privileged access tokens.
- Attackers could abuse the tokens for supply-chain attacks.
- No CVE or observed exploitation is stated.
From the original article
Incoming email addresses automatically assigned to each user on the platform contain highly privileged access tokens that attackers can use.
By Rob Wright · darkreading.com
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