GitHub fixes bug causing users to log into other accounts

stapp · Mar 9, 2021

Last night, GitHub automatically logged out many users by invalidating their GitHub.com sessions to protect user accounts against a potentially serious security vulnerability.
Earlier this month GitHub had received a report of anomalous behavior from an external party.
The anomalous behavior stemmed from a rare race condition vulnerability in which a GitHub user's login session was misrouted to the web browser of another logged-in user, giving the latter an authenticated session cookie of and access to the former user's account.
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