CVE-2023-2181
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-12 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 06:12
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions before 15.9.8, 15.10.0 before 15.10.7, and 15.11.0 before 15.11.3. A malicious developer could use a git feature called refs/replace to smuggle content into a merge request which would not be visible during review in the UI.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-2181.jsonThird Party Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/407859Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/1938185Permissions Required
Impacted products
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