CVE-2023-0523 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.8.5, 15.9 before 15.9.4, and 15.10 before 15.10.1. An XSS was possible via a malicious email address for certain instances.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.19609.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

GitLab

GitLab

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`>=15.6, <15.8.5`	affected	—
`>=15.9, <15.9.4`	affected	—
`>=15.10, <15.10.1`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:15.10.0::::community:::
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:15.10.0::::enterprise:::

No data.

No data.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Gitlab Subscribe	Gitlab Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

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-2023-0523.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/389487
https://hackerone.com/reports/1842867

History

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2023-04-05T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-10T21:09:32.085Z

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

Link: CVE-2023-0523

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:17:49.250Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-05T20:15:07.443

Modified: 2025-02-10T22:15:30.810

Link: CVE-2023-0523

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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