CVE-2023-5061

Missing Authorization in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Dec 15, 2023
Updated: May 2, 2026
Reserved: Sep 19, 2023

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 9.3 before 16.4.4, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.4, all versions starting from 16.6 before 16.6.2. In certain situations, it may have been possible for developers to override predefined CI variables via the REST API.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	9.3 to before 16.4.4Affected 16.5 to before 16.5.4Affected 16.6 to before 16.6.2Affected

References

GitLab Issue #425521issue-trackingpermissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2125189technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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