CVE-2023-3385 | THREATINT

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 8.10 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. Under specific circumstances, a user importing a project 'from export' could access and read unrelated files via uploading a specially crafted file. This was due to a bug in `tar`, fixed in [`tar-1.35`](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2023-07/msg00005.html).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2023-06-23 | Published 2023-08-01 | Updated 2025-11-20 | Assigner GitLab

MEDIUM: 6.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem types

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

Default status

unaffected

8.10 (semver) before 16.0.8

affected

16.1.0 (semver) before 16.1.3

affected

16.2.0 (semver) before 16.2.2

affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/416161 (GitLab Issue #416161) issue-tracking

hackerone.com/reports/2032730 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2032730) technical-description exploit

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/416161 (GitLab Issue #416161) issue-tracking

hackerone.com/reports/2032730 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2032730) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2023-3385)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-3385)

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