CVE-2023-3914 (GCVE-0-2023-3914)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-29 06:02
Modified
2025-11-20 04:08
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-286 - Incorrect User Management
Summary
A business logic error in GitLab EE affecting all versions prior to 16.2.8, 16.3 prior to 16.3.5, and 16.4 prior to 16.4.1 allows access to internal projects. A service account is not deleted when a namespace is deleted, allowing access to internal projects.
References
Impacted products
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GitLab GitLab Version: 0   ≤
Version: 16.3   ≤
Version: 16.4   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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