Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU74248

Command Injection in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2023-1708

Published: March 31, 2023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU74248

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-1708

CWE-ID: CWE-77

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to non-printable characters are copied from clipboard. A remote user can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary commands on the target system.

Affected software

Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition

How to mitigate CVE-2023-1708

Install updates from vendor's website.

Gitlab Community Edition - addressed in versions 15.8.5, 15.9.4, 15.10.1
GitLab Enterprise Edition - addressed in versions 15.8.5, 15.9.4, 15.10.1

External References

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2023/03/30/security-release-gitlab-15-10-1-released/

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