CVE-2023-5995

Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 4.4 Medium
Published: Dec 1, 2023
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Reserved: Nov 7, 2023

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.4.3, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.3, all versions starting from 16.6 before 16.6.1. It was possible for an attacker to abuse the policy bot to gain access to internal projects.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	16.2 to before 16.4.3Affected 16.5 to before 16.5.3Affected 16.6 to before 16.6.1Affected

References

GitLab Issue #425361issue-tracking
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2138880technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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