CVE-2023-2825 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting only version 16.0.0. An unauthenticated malicious user can use a path traversal vulnerability to read arbitrary files on the server when an attachment exists in a public project nested within at least five groups.

Published: 2023-05-26

Score: 10 Critical

EPSS: 92.4% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

GitLab

GitLab

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`16.0.0`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:16.0.0::::community:::
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:16.0.0::::enterprise:::

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.92447.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-2825.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/412371
https://hackerone.com/reports/1994725

History

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Gitlab Gitlab

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2023-05-26T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-15T15:45:18.054Z

Reserved: 2023-05-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-2825

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:33:05.812Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-26T21:15:16.740

Modified: 2025-01-15T16:15:26.870

Link: CVE-2023-2825

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-22

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