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High 8.1Published Nov 9, 2023

CVE-2023-4379Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 15.3 prior to 16.2.8, 16.3 prior to 16.3.5, and 16.4 prior to 16.4.1. Code owner approval was not removed from merge requests when the target branch was updated.

CVSS
8.1 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-863
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
GitLab
NVD analysis
Not yet received
Record last updated
Oct 10, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 10, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
GitLab GitLab
gitlab:gitlab
from 15.3 before 16.2.8; from 16.3 before 16.3.5; from 16.4 before 16.4.1
CNA record

References

  • issue-tracking, broken-link

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