CVE-2023-3484 (GCVE-0-2023-3484)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-21 13:01 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:07
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 12.8 before 15.11.11, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.7, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.2. An attacker could change the name or path of a public top-level group in certain situations.
Severity ?
8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/416773 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2035687 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 12.8 , < 15.11.11 (semver)
Affected: 16.0 , < 16.0.7 (semver)
Affected: 16.1 , < 16.1.2 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks [zeb0x01](https://hackerone.com/zeb0x01) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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