Critical severity · published Sep 19, 2023
CVE-2023-5009
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4
9.8
CVSS
9.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. It was possible for an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies. This was a bypass of [CVE-2023-3932](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3932) showing additional impact.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)9.7% · higher than 95% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
GitLab · GitLab
13.12 before 16.2.7; 16.3 before 16.3.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5009
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5009
Broken Link
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/425304
Permissions Required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2147126
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