CVE-2023-5995 | THREATINT

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.4.3, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.3, all versions starting from 16.6 before 16.6.1. It was possible for an attacker to abuse the policy bot to gain access to internal projects.

Reserved 2023-11-07 | Published 2023-12-01 | Updated 2024-10-03 | Assigner GitLab

MEDIUM: 4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem types

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Product status

Default status

unaffected

16.2 before 16.4.3

affected

16.5 before 16.5.3

affected

16.6 before 16.6.1

affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/425361 (GitLab Issue #425361) issue-tracking

hackerone.com/reports/2138880 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2138880) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2023-5995)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-5995)

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