cve-2016-4340
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:25
Severity
Summary
The impersonate feature in Gitlab 8.7.0, 8.6.0 through 8.6.7, 8.5.0 through 8.5.11, 8.4.0 through 8.4.9, 8.3.0 through 8.3.8, and 8.2.0 through 8.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to "log in" as any other user via unspecified vectors.
Impacted products
VendorProduct
n/an/a
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