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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-13344

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions prior to 13.2.10, 13.3.7 and 13.4.2. Sessions keys are stored in plain-text in Redis which allows attacker with Redis access to authenticate as any user that has a session stored in Redis

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CVE-2020-13344
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1 Nov 2026, 04:49 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-13344

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Oct 2020, 14:15 UTC

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions prior to 13.2.10, 13.3.7 and 13.4.2. Sessions keys are stored in plain-text in Redis which allows attacker with Redis access to authenticate as any user that has a session stored in Redis

osv:CVE-2020-13344
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-13344",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-13344",
    "summary": "An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions prior to 13.2.10, 13.3.7 and 13.4.2. Sessions keys are stored in plain-text in Redis which allows attacker with Redis access to authenticate as any user that has a session stored in Redis",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-13344",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:26.523600783Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-13344.json",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/17817"
      ],
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430674,
  "published_at": "2020-10-08T14:15:12.17+00:00"
}