CVE-2023-3920

2023-09-2900:00:00

ubuntu.com

gitlab

security issue

unauthorized access

project forks

CVSS3

4.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

18.6%

JSON

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from
11.2 before 16.2.8, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.5, all
versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.1. It was possible that a
maintainer to create a fork relationship between existing projects contrary
to the documentation.

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	GitLab isn’t maintainable as a distro package, and was removed from Ubuntu because of this. We will not be fixing security issues in the gitlab package in Xenial.