CVE-2023-4522 (GCVE-0-2023-4522)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-30 07:01 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:09
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions before 16.2.0. Committing directories containing LF character results in 500 errors when viewing the commit.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-1287 - Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/406817 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/1937213 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 0 , < 16.2.0 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [cryptopone](https://hackerone.com/cryptopone) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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