CVE-2023-0518 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 14.0 before 15.6.7, all versions starting from 15.7 before 15.7.6, all versions starting from 15.8 before 15.8.1. It was possible to trigger a DoS attack by uploading a malicious Helm chart.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00614.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitlab	Gitlab

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-12564	An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 14.0 before 15.6.7, all versions starting from 15.7 before 15.7.6, all versions starting from 15.8 before 15.8.1. It was possible to trigger a DoS attack by uploading a malicious Helm chart.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-0518.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/383082
https://hackerone.com/reports/1766973

History

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-400
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2023-02-13T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-21T19:13:59.735Z

Reserved: 2023-01-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-0518

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:17:49.377Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-13T23:15:11.617

Modified: 2025-03-21T20:15:15.020

Link: CVE-2023-0518

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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