CVE-2023-3511

Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 2.0 Low
Published: Dec 15, 2023
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Reserved: Jul 4, 2023

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 8.17 before 16.4.4, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.4, all versions starting from 16.6 before 16.6.2. It was possible for auditor users to fork and submit merge requests to private projects they're not a member of.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	2.0 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	8.17 to before 16.4.4Affected 16.5 to before 16.5.4Affected 16.6 to before 16.6.2Affected

References

GitLab Issue #416961issue-tracking
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2046752technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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