CVE-2023-2181

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-2181
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-05-12 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-05-26 17:50:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions before 15.9.8, 15.10.0 before 15.10.7, and 15.11.0 before 15.11.3. A malicious developer could use a git feature called refs/replace to smuggle content into a merge request which would not be visible during review in the UI.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gitlab Gitlab All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HackerOne MISC hackerone.com
Not Found MISC gitlab.com
2023/CVE-2023-2181.json · master · GitLab.org / cves · GitLab CONFIRM gitlab.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Thanks [inspector-ambitious](https://hackerone.com/inspector-ambitious) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 379583 Gitlab Smuggling code changes via merge requests with refs/replace Vulnerability (prior to gitlab- 15.11.3, 15.10.7, 15.9.8)
  • 691164 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for gitlab (4a08a4fb-f152-11ed-9c88-001b217b3468)

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