QID 379246

QID 379246: GitLab EE/CE Bypass Required Approvals Vulnerability (CVE-2023-4812)

GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package which can develop, secure, and operate software

CVE-2023-4812: An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE/CE where the required CODEOWNERS approval could be bypassed by adding changes to a previously approved merge request.
Affected Versions:
GitLab CE/EE v15.3 before 16.5.5, v16.6 before 16.6.4, v16.7 before 16.7.2

QID Detection Logic:(Authenticated)(Linux)
The QID fires gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info command to check vulnerable version of GitLab.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to merging of malicious code without code owners approval.

CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.3 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.4 severity.

Solution

The vendor has released a patch for this vulnerability. For more information, please visit GitLab Releases

Vendor References

CVE-2023-4812 - about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/01/11/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-7-2-released/

CVEs related to QID 379246

CVE-2023-4812 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
CVE-2023-4812			about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/01/11/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-7-2-released/

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