CVE-2023-5207 (GCVE-0-2023-5207)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-30 08:30 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:10
VLAI?
Title
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in GitLab
Summary
A vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE and EE affecting all versions starting 16.0 prior to 16.2.8, 16.3 prior to 16.3.5, and 16.4 prior to 16.4.1. An authenticated attacker could perform arbitrary pipeline execution under the context of another user.
Severity ?
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/425604 issue-tracking
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/425857 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2174141 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.4 , < 16.4.1 (semver)
Affected: 16.3 , < 16.3.5 (semver)
Affected: 16.0.0 , < 16.2.8 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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