CVE-2023-3950 (GCVE-0-2023-3950)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-01 10:30 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:09
VLAI?
Summary
An information disclosure issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.2 prior to 16.2.5, and 16.3 prior to 16.3.1 allowed other Group Owners to see the Public Key for a Google Cloud Logging audit event streaming destination, if configured. Owners can now only write the key, not read it.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/419675 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2079154 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.2 , < 16.2.5 (semver)
Affected: 16.3 , < 16.3.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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