CVE-2023-5933 (GCVE-0-2023-5933)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-26 01:02
Modified
2025-11-20 04:10
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-80 - Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions after 13.7 before 16.6.6, 16.7 prior to 16.7.4, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.1. Improper input sanitization of user name allows arbitrary API PUT requests.
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GitLab GitLab Version: 13.7   ≤
Version: 16.7   ≤
Version: 16.8   ≤
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