CVE-2023-4002

mediumpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.006 · 47 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.59% (47th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

9 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 14.1 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. It was possible for EE-licensed users to link any security policy project by its ID to projects or groups the user has access to, potentially revealing the security projects's configured security policies.

cvss

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

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · cve@gitlab.comexploitability 1.6 · impact 3.6

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

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

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-201US

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

GitLab GitLab14.1 → 16.0.8enisa_euvdEU
GitLab GitLab16.1.0 → 16.1.3enisa_euvdEU
GitLab GitLab16.2.0 → 16.2.2enisa_euvdEU
gitlab gitlab14.1.0 → 16.0.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab16.1.0 → 16.1.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab16.2.0 → 16.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami gitlab14.1.0 → 16.0.8osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab
Bitnami gitlab16.1.0 → 16.1.3osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab
Bitnami gitlab16.2.0 → 16.2.2osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-1945GitLab: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-08-01csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in GitLab ausnutzen, um einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu verursachen, einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff durchzuführen, vertrauliche Informationen preiszugeben, Dateien zu manipulieren oder beliebigen Code auszuführen.
BIT-gitlab-2023-4002Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data in GitLab2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 14.1 before 16.0.8, all versions starting from 16.1 before 16.1.3, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.2. It was possible for EE-licensed users to link any security policy project by its ID to projects or groups the user has access to, potentially revealing the security projects's configured security policies.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-08-04modified 2026-06-17

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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