CVE-2023-3915 (GCVE-0-2023-3915)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-01 10:01 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:08
VLAI?
Title
Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions in GitLab
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.5, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.5, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.1. If an external user is given an owner role on any group, that external user may escalate their privileges on the instance by creating a service account in that group. This service account is not classified as external and may be used to access internal projects.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-279 - Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/417664 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2040834 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.1 , < 16.1.5 (semver)
Affected: 16.2 , < 16.2.5 (semver)
Affected: 16.3 , < 16.3.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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