CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-4340
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The impersonate feature in Gitlab 8.7.0, 8.6.0 through 8.6.7, 8.5.0 through 8.5.11, 8.4.0 through 8.4.9, 8.3.0 through 8.3.8, and 8.2.0 through 8.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to "log in" as any other user via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• gitlab gitlab 8.2.0
• gitlab gitlab 8.2.1
• gitlab gitlab 8.2.2
• gitlab gitlab 8.2.3
• gitlab gitlab 8.2.4
• gitlab gitlab 8.3.0
• gitlab gitlab 8.3.1
• gitlab gitlab 8.3.2
• gitlab gitlab 8.3.3
• gitlab gitlab 8.3.4
• gitlab gitlab 8.3.5
• gitlab gitlab 8.3.6
• gitlab gitlab 8.3.7
• gitlab gitlab 8.3.8
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.0
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.1
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.2
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.3
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.4
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.5
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.6
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.7
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.8
• gitlab gitlab 8.4.9
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.0
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.1
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.2
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.3
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.4
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.5
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.6
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.7
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.8
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.9
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.10
• gitlab gitlab 8.5.11
• gitlab gitlab 8.6.0
• gitlab gitlab 8.6.1
• gitlab gitlab 8.6.2
• gitlab gitlab 8.6.3
• gitlab gitlab 8.6.4
• gitlab gitlab 8.6.5
• gitlab gitlab 8.6.6
• gitlab gitlab 8.6.7
• gitlab gitlab 8.7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138368/GitLab-Impersonate-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/02/cve-2016-4340-patches/ Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15548 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40236/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138368/GitLab-Impersonate-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/02/cve-2016-4340-patches/ Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15548 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40236/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry