CVE-2023-2030 (GCVE-0-2023-2030)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-12 13:57 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:06
VLAI
Title
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.2 prior to 16.5.6, 16.6 prior to 16.6.4, and 16.7 prior to 16.7.2 in which an attacker could potentially modify the metadata of signed commits.
Severity
3.5 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-31 19:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Assigner
GitLab CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 75/100 over 297 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/407252 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/1929929 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 12.2 , < 16.5.6 (semver)
Affected: 16.6 , < 16.6.4 (semver)
Affected: 16.7 , < 16.7.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [lotsofloops](https://hackerone.com/lotsofloops) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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