CVE-2023-5009 (GCVE-0-2023-5009)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-19 07:01 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:10
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 13.12 before 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. It was possible for an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user via scheduled security scan policies. This was a bypass of [CVE-2023-3932](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-3932) showing additional impact.
Severity ?
9.6 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/425304 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2147126 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 13.12 , < 16.2.7 (semver)
Affected: 16.3 , < 16.3.4 (semver)
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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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