vulnerability

Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2023-6680: Improper Certificate Validation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
2023-12-15
Added
2025-04-22
Modified
2025-04-22

Description

An improper certificate validation issue in Smartcard authentication in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 11.6 prior to 16.4.4, 16.5 prior to 16.5.4, and 16.6 prior to 16.6.2 allows an attacker to authenticate as another user given their public key if they use Smartcard authentication. Smartcard authentication is an experimental feature and has to be manually enabled by an administrator.

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-cve-2023-6680-solution
Title
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