CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-3915

7.2 HIGH Published 2023-09-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-09-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-279, CWE-732

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.5, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.5, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.1. If an external user is given an owner role on any group, that external user may escalate their privileges on the instance by creating a service account in that group. This service account is not classified as external and may be used to access internal projects.

Affected configurations

• gitlab gitlab (>= 16.1.0 < 16.1.5) • gitlab gitlab (>= 16.2 < 16.2.5) • gitlab gitlab 16.3.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-279 Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References