Attacker Tried to Exploit Alpine Linux’s GitLab via CVSS 10.0 Flaw Its Ruby Left Open
Nyxfrom the patch-the-whole-stack dept.
Alpine Linux rebuilt its GitLab server after an attacker tried a remote code execution exploit through a CVSS 10.0 flaw. Alpine found that upgrading GitLab alone had left the underlying Ruby flaw unpatched. The lesson: when a bug lives in the runtime, update the runtime too, not just the app on top.
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