CVE-2023-2825

highpriority · attend · 65EPSS 0.716 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

8 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

71.6% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

6 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–10

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.110criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · cve@gitlab.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.8

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

exploits (8)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source GitLab 16.0.0all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:gitlab:gitlab:16.0.0
GitLab GitLab≤ 16.0.0enisa_euvdEU
GitLab Inc. Gitlab≤ 16.0.0fstec_bduRU
gitlab gitlab= 16.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami gitlab16.0.0 → 16.0.1osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-1290GitLab: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-05-23csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in GitLab ausnutzen, um Informationen offenzulegen oder einen Denial of Service zu verursachen
BIT-gitlab-2023-28252024-03-06vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-05-26modified 2026-06-17

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references (13)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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