CVE-2023-4812 | THREATINT

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 15.3 before 16.5.6, all versions starting from 16.6 before 16.6.4, all versions starting from 16.7 before 16.7.2. The required CODEOWNERS approval could be bypassed by adding changes to a previously approved merge request.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2023-09-06 | Published 2024-01-12 | Updated 2026-05-01 | Assigner GitLab

HIGH: 7.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

Problem types

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Product status

Default status

unaffected

15.3 (semver) before 16.5.6

affected

16.6 (semver) before 16.6.4

affected

16.7 (semver) before 16.7.2

affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/424398 (GitLab Issue #424398) issue-tracking

hackerone.com/reports/2115574 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2115574) technical-description exploit

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/424398 (GitLab Issue #424398) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/2115574 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2115574) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2023-4812)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-4812)

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