Security Resilience

CVE-2023-0989

Gitlab 13.11 – 16.2.8

Published
29 September 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
CVSS Score v3.1 4.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0050 42th percentile
Risk Priority 37 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-0989 is a medium-severity Improper Ownership Management (CWE-282) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 42th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An information disclosure issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.11 prior to 16.2.8, 16.3 prior to 16.3.5, and 16.4 prior to 16.4.1 allows an attacker to extract non-protected CI/CD variables by tricking a user to visit a…

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fork with a malicious CI/CD configuration.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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CVE-2023-3205Same product: Gitlab Gitlab
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CVE-2024-1816Same product: Gitlab Gitlab
CVE-2026-16494Same product: Gitlab Gitlab
CVE-2025-11246Same product: Gitlab Gitlab

Affected Assets

gitlab
gitlab
16.4.0 · 13.11 — 16.2.8 · 13.11 — 16.2.8 · 16.3.0 — 16.3.5

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

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Access control policies can enforce correct ownership assignment and verification for objects.

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Identity management processes help ensure objects are assigned to the correct, verified owners.

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Managing access rights includes verifying and maintaining proper ownership of resources.

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Privileged access rights management requires accurate ownership to prevent unauthorized privilege escalation.

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Information access restriction mechanisms rely on correct ownership to enforce access decisions.

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Access to source code control depends on proper ownership assignment to protect intellectual property.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-282, a class-level weakness. Rules are authored against its narrower children: CWE-283, CWE-708.

References