Security Resilience

CVE-2023-2181

Gitlab ≤ 15.9.8

Published
12 May 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
CVSS Score v3.1 6.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0073 53th percentile
Risk Priority 52 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-2023-2181 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions before 15.9.8, 15.10.0 before 15.10.7, and 15.11.0 before 15.11.3. A malicious developer could use a git feature called refs/replace to smuggle content into a merge request which would not be…

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visible during review in the UI.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Affected Assets

gitlab
gitlab
≤ 15.9.8 · 15.10.0 — 15.10.7 · 15.11.0 — 15.11.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References