vulnerability

Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2023-4658: Incorrect Authorization

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 1, 2023
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 8.13 before 16.4.3, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.3, all versions starting from 16.6 before 16.6.1. It was possible for an attacker to abuse the `Allowed to merge` permission as a guest user, when granted the permission through a group.

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
Title
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