CVE-2023-3907 (GCVE-0-2023-3907)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-17 23:02
Modified
2025-05-22 04:07
Severity ?
4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-286 - Incorrect User Management
Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 16.0 prior to 16.4.4, 16.5 prior to 16.5.4, and 16.6 prior to 16.6.2 allows a project Maintainer to use a Project Access Token to escalate their role to Owner
References
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GitLab GitLab Version: 16.0   ≤
Version: 16.5   ≤
Version: 16.6   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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