CVE-2023-3915 | THREATINT

Assigner	GitLab
Reserved	2023-07-25
Published	2023-09-01
Updated	2024-09-18

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.5, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.5, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.1. If an external user is given an owner role on any group, that external user may escalate their privileges on the instance by creating a service account in that group. This service account is not classified as external and may be used to access internal projects.

MEDIUM: 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Product status

Default status

unaffected

16.1 before 16.1.5

affected

16.2 before 16.2.5

affected

16.3 before 16.3.1

affected

Credits

Thanks [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/417664 (GitLab Issue #417664) issue-tracking

https://hackerone.com/reports/2040834 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2040834) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org CVE-2023-3915

nvd.nist.gov CVE-2023-3915

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https://cve.threatint.com/CVE/CVE-2023-3915

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