CVE-2023-2485 (GCVE-0-2023-2485)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-07 00:00
Modified
2025-01-07 15:44
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 14.1 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. A malicious maintainer in a project can escalate other users to Owners in that project if they import members from another project that those other users are Owners of.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Version: >=14.1, <15.10.8
Version: >=15.11, <15.11.7
Version: >=16.0, <16.0.2
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