CVE-2023-6680 (GCVE-0-2023-6680)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-15 16:02 – Updated: 2024-08-29 15:04
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Summary
An improper certificate validation issue in Smartcard authentication in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 11.6 prior to 16.4.4, 16.5 prior to 16.5.4, and 16.6 prior to 16.6.2 allows an attacker to authenticate as another user given their public key if they use Smartcard authentication. Smartcard authentication is an experimental feature and has to be manually enabled by an administrator.
Severity ?
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 11.6 , < 16.4.4 (semver)
Affected: 16.5 , < 16.5.4 (semver)
Affected: 16.6 , < 16.6.2 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks Lucas Serrano from PEReN (@LSerranoPEReN) for reporting this vulnerability
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