Improper Privilege Management in GitLab Enterprise Edition and Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2023-5009
Published: September 25, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU81077
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5009
CWE-ID: CWE-269
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges within the application.
The vulnerability exists due to improper privilege management caused by insufficient fix for #VU78878 (CVE-2023-3932). A remote user can run pipelines as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies.
Affected software
GitLab Enterprise Edition
Gitlab Community Edition
Gitlab Community Edition
How to mitigate CVE-2023-5009
Install updates from vendor's website.
GitLab Enterprise Edition - addressed in versions 16.2.7, 16.3.4
Gitlab Community Edition - addressed in versions 16.2.7, 16.3.4
Gitlab Community Edition - addressed in versions 16.2.7, 16.3.4