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CVE-2023-3441 (GCVE-0-2023-3441)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-01 09:47 – Updated: 2024-10-01 13:28
VLAI
Title
Exposure of Sensitive Information Due to Incompatible Policies in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE/CE affecting all versions starting from 8.0 before 16.4. The product did not sufficiently warn about security implications of granting merge rights to protected branches.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-01 13:27 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-213 - Exposure of Sensitive Information Due to Incompatible Policies
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/416482 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2033561 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/417284 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2041385 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 8.0 , < 16.4 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [samuellg](https://hackerone.com/samuellg) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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