CVE-2023-4812

Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 7.6 High
Published: Jan 12, 2024
Updated: May 1, 2026
Reserved: Sep 6, 2023

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.6 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	15.3 to before 16.5.6Affected 16.6 to before 16.6.4Affected 16.7 to before 16.7.2Affected

References

GitLab Issue #424398issue-trackingpermissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2115574technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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