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Bypass describes attacker methods that circumvent specific security controls, such as authentication checks, input validation, or detection systems, without directly exploiting the underlying vulnerability. These techniques often leverage design flaws, misconfigurations, or protocol weaknesses to evade protections like firewalls, multi-factor authentication, or antivirus scanning.
Bypassing controls can enable unauthorized access, data exfiltration, or persistent presence while avoiding alerts, complicating detection and response. Effective defense requires layered security measures, rigorous configuration management, and continuous validation of control effectiveness to identify and close bypass paths before attackers exploit them.
Company urges organizations using self-hosting GitLab instances to apply updates for CVE-2024-45409 as soon as possible.
GitLab has released patches to address a critical flaw impacting Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that could result in an authentication bypass
GitLab has released security updates to address a critical SAML authentication bypass vulnerability impacting self-managed installations of the GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). [...]
Roughly nine percent of tested firmware images use non-production cryptographic keys that are publicly known or leaked in data breaches, leaving many Secure Boot devices vulnerable to UEFI bootkit malware attacks. [...]
SIM swapping and “adversary-in-the-middle” can bypass security for accounts on X (formerly Twitter)