CVE-2023-1210 (GCVE-0-2023-1210)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-01 23:36 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:06
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.9 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. It was possible to leak a user's email via an error message for groups that restrict membership by email domain.
Severity ?
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-209 - Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/394775 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/1884672 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 12.9 , < 16.0.8 (semver)
Affected: 16.1.0 , < 16.1.3 (semver)
Affected: 16.2.0 , < 16.2.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [shells3c](https://hackerone.com/shells3c) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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