CVE-2023-3413 (GCVE-0-2023-3413)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-29 08:30 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:07
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.8, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.5, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.1. It was possible to read the source code of a project through a fork created before changing visibility to only project members.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-201 - Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/416284 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2027967 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.2 , < 16.2.8 (semver)
Affected: 16.3 , < 16.3.5 (semver)
Affected: 16.4 , < 16.4.1 (semver)
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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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