CVE-2023-5332 (GCVE-0-2023-5332)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-04 06:30 – Updated: 2024-10-03 06:23
VLAI
Title
Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component in GitLab
Summary
Patch in third party library Consul requires 'enable-script-checks' to be set to False. This was required to enable a patch by the vendor. Without this setting the patch could be bypassed. This only affects GitLab-EE.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-1395 - Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 9.5.0 , < 16.2.8 (semver)
Affected: 16.3.0 , < 16.3.5 (semver)
Affected: 16.4 , < 16.4.1 (semver)
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