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CVE-2023-3915

Published: Sep 1, 2023

Modified: May 13, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

GitLab

GitLab

affected
16.1 - < 16.1.5
affected
16.2 - < 16.2.5
affected
16.3 - < 16.3.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-279

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

References

GitLab Issue #417664
issue-tracking
permissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2040834
technical-description
exploit
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